MURE, David (3 son of colonel Wm. Mure of Caldwell, Renfrewshire, d. 1831). b. 21 Nov. 1810; ed. at Westminster sch. and univ. of Edinb.; called to Scotch bar Dec. 1831; one of junior counsel for the crown 1843–6; sheriff of Perthshire 28 Nov. 1853–8; solicitor general for Scotland 12 July 1858–9; lord advocate of Scotland 15 April 1859; judge of court of session with courtesy title of lord Mure 11 Jany. 1865 to 1889; a lord justiciary 1 April 1874; resigned Oct. 1889; M.P. co. Bute 1859–65. d. Bournemouth 11 April 1891.
MURE, James (son of James Mure). b. Great George st. Westminster 31 July 1796; ed. Westminster 1807–14, king’s scholar 1809, and at Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1817, M.A. 1820; barrister I.T. 2 July 1824; wrote the Westminster play epilogue On the peace congress 1850; wrote epilogues and epigrams for the election dinners and was a Busby trustee; attended the play rehearsals as a coach to the actors; examined before the Public school commission 1863; president of the Elizabethan club 1867–76; with H. Bull and C. B. Scott editor of Lusus alteri Westmonasterienses 1863–7, 2 parts. d. 20 Gloucester place, Portman sq. London 20 July 1876. F. H. Forshall’s Westminster school (1884) 311–13.
MURE, William (brother of David Mure 1810–91). b. Caldwell, Ayrshire 9 July 1799; ed. at Westminster school and at univs. of Edinburgh and Bonn; colonel of Renfrewshire militia 3 Feb. 1831 to death; D.C.L. Oxford 1833; D.C.L. Glasgow 1853; M.P. Renfrewshire 1846–55; lord rector of Glasgow univ. 1847–8; author of Brief remarks on the chronology of the Egyptian dynasties 1829; A dissertation on the calendar and zodiac of ancient Egypt 1832; Journal of a tour in Greece and the Ionian islands 1842; A critical history of the language and literature of ancient Greece, 5 vols. 1850–7, 2 ed. 1859; prepared for the press and presented to the Maitland club Selections from the family papers at Caldwell, 3 vols. 1854. d. 55 Rutland gardens, Kensington road, London 1 April 1860. G.M. viii 634–5 (1860).
MURE, William (eld. son of preceding). b. Edinburgh 9 May 1830; 2 lieut. 60 rifles 22 Oct. 1847. 1 lieut. 11 July 1851; captain 79 foot 29 Dec. 1854; lieut. Scots fusilier guards 13 July 1855, capt. 16 Dec. 1859, sold out 12 June 1860; served in Kaffir war 1851–3, and in the Crimea 1854–5; lieut. col. of Paisley rifle corps 17 Dec. 1860 to death; contested Renfrewshire 13 Sept. 1873; M.P. Renfrewshire 7 Feb. 1874 to death. d. 2 Hamilton place, Piccadilly, London 9 Nov. 1880.
MURFITT, Samuel. b. Wimblington, Cambs. 1831; the largest man in the world, height 6 ft. 1 inch, weight 40 stone, girth of waist 100 inches, measure round calf of leg 20 inches; publicly exhibited down to 1886. d. Princes-end, Tipton 21 Jany. 1887.
MURLAND, James William. b. 1814 or 1815; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1836, M.A. 1839; called to Irish bar 1837; chairman of the Royal Bank 1868 to death; chairman of Great Northern railway co. of Ireland 1876 to death; comr. of national education in Ireland 1865 to death. Found dead in his bed at Nutley, Stillorgan road, Booterstown, co. Dublin 20 May 1890. Irish law times xxiv 275 (1890).
MURLY, George Bullock. b. 1810; solicitor at Bristol 1832 to death; solicitor to Stuckey’s banking co. 40 years; founded Langport and Mid-Somerset benefit building soc. March 1849; founded Bristol and South Wales railway waggon co. 1862. d. Coombe Leigh, Weston-super-mare 19 Oct. 1887.
MURPHY, Mr. b. Killowen near Rostrevor; a labourer in the Liverpool docks; a waiter in an hotel; 7 feet 10½ inches high in his stockings; exhibited in Great Britain and on the continent; at Vienna on 9 May 1857 was presented to the emperor and empress of Austria; grew to be almost 9 feet high and to weigh 24 stone. d. of small pox at Marseilles about May 1862 aged 26. Willis’ Current Notes (1857) 34; E. J. Wood’s Giants and dwarfs (1868) 224; F. Buckland’s Curiosities of Natural history, 3rd series ii 23 (1868).
MURPHY, Blanche Elizabeth Mary Annunciata (eld. child of Charles George Noel, 2 Earl of Gainsborough 1818–81). b. Portman sq. London 25 March 1845; m. 6 March 1870 Thomas P. Murphy, an Irishman, her father’s organist, the earl opposed the match but finally allowed the marriage to take place from his house, he was an organist in America; bought a farm near Humphrey’s Ledge, New England 1880; wrote in the Catholic World Mag. 1871 to death, and corresponded with The Atlantic, Scribner’s Monthly, The Galaxy, The Catholic Review and Lippincott’s Mag. d. North Conway, near Hampshire, United States 21 March 1881. bur. in catholic cathedral, Portland, Maine 24 March. Appleton’s American biography iv 465 (1888); The Tablet 23 April 1881 pp. 659–60.
MURPHY, Edward William. b. Dublin 1802; ed. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1829, M.A. and M.B. 1832, M.D. 1853; L.R.C.S.I. 1827, F.R.C.S.I. 1832; assistant surgeon Dublin lying-in hospital 1832; removed to London 1841; professor of midwifery Univ. coll. 1842–65; one of the earliest to use chloroform 1848; president of Medical soc. of London; author of Chloroform in the practice of midwifery 1848; Lectures on midwifery 1852, 2 ed. 1862; What is puerperal fever 1857. d. 1 Nottingham place, Regents park, London 4 Jany. 1877. Barker’s Photographs of medical men i 69–72 (1868) portrait; Medical times i 217 (1877).