MURPHY, Patrick. Called to Irish bar 1827; Q.C. 25 Feb. 1841; chairman of quarter sessions Cavan 1835 to death. d. Hotel Folkestone, Boulogne 7 Nov. 1862.
MURPHY, Timothy. b. Parish of Coachford, co. Cork 16 Dec. 1789; entered Maynooth college Sept. 1810; ordained priest May 1815; C. of Fermoy March 1826, and parish priest there 1841; bishop of Cloyne 19 April 1849 to death, consecrated 16 Sept. 1849. d. Fermoy 4 Dec. 1856. Brady’s Episcopal succession ii 102 (1876).
MURRAY, Alexander. Second lieut. 87 foot 24 April 1835; lieut. 18 foot 23 Oct. 1839, captain 20 Aug. 1844; captain 87 foot 31 Jany. 1845, lieut. col. 2 Nov. 1855 to death; served in the China expedition, was wounded at Chefoo. d. London 24 Dec. 1865.
MURRAY, Alexander (son of Anthony Murray of Dollerie, Crieff). b. 1811; entered royal navy 1824; lieutenant 1830, retired 1835; served at battle of Navarino 1827; first assistant of geological survey of Canada 1843–64; director of geological survey of Newfoundland 1864 to death; C.M.G. 30 May 1877. d. Belmont cottage, Crieff, Perthshire 18 Dec. 1884.
MURRAY, Amelia Matilda (4 dau. of George Murray 1761–1803, bishop of St. Davids). b. 30 April 1795; had a government pension of £70 from 1803; great friend of lady Byron 1820 etc.; maid of honour to queen Victoria 1837, resigned 1856; extra woman of the bedchamber; author of Remarks on education 1847; Letters from the United States, Cuba, and Canada, 2 vols. 1856; Recollections from 1803 to 1837, 1868; Pictorial and descriptive sketches of the Odenwald, 2 parts 1869. d. Glenberrow, near Malvern, Herefordshire 7 June 1884.
MURRAY, Andrew (2 son of Andrew Murray of Murrayshall, Perthshire 1782–1847). b. Edinb. 19 Aug. 1813; ed. at high school, academy and univ.; apprenticed to Wm. Fairbairn, C.E. 1832–37, managing partner with him at Millwall 1842–43; assistant chief engineer of Woolwich dockyard 1843; chief engineer of Portsmouth dockyard May 1846–69; inspector of factories and consulting engineer to the admiralty 1869 to April 1870; A.I.C.E. 20 March 1838, M.I.C.E. 2 Feb. 1847; C.B. 1869. d. Richmond, Surrey 13 Oct. 1872. Min. of Proc. of I.C.E. xxxvi 270–72 (1873).
MURRAY, Andrew (son of Wm. Murray of Conland, Perthshire). b. Edinburgh 19 Feb. 1812; a writer to the signet in Edinb. 15 June 1837–60; professor of natural science in New college, Edinb. for one session 1857; F.R.S. Edinb. 1857; secretary of the Oregon exploration society on its foundation; president of Botanical society of Edinb. 1858–9; assistant secretary in London to Royal horticultural society 1860, member of its scientific committee 1868, scientific director 1877 to death; F.L.S. 1861; began collection of economic entomology for Science and art department 1868, now at Bethnal Green museum; author of The pines and firs of Japan 1863; the letter press to Peter Lawson’s Pinetum Britannicum 1866; The geographical distribution of mammals 1866. d. 67 Bedford gardens, Camden hill, Kensington 10 Jany. 1878. bur. Kensal Green cemet. 12 Jany.
MURRAY, Augustus William. b. 15 Oct. 1811; ensign 73 foot 28 Dec. 1832, lieut. 1837; captain 1 West India regiment 25 Nov. 1842, lieut. col. 16 March 1860; commanded the troops on expedition up the river Gambia in Feb. 1861; placed on h.p. 4 March 1862; deputy adjutant general Windward and Leeward Islands 4 March 1862 to 30 April 1867; commanded forces in Mauritius 14 Jany. 1877 to 14 Jany. 1882; granted distinguished service reward 28 Jany. 1868; M.G. 1 Oct. 1877, placed on retired list with hon. rank of L.G. 14 Jany. 1882; C.B. 27 Jany. 1862. d. Limassol, Cyprus 18 Mar. 1894.
MURRAY, Charles Knight (son of Charles Murray). b. 12 Oct. 1793; ed. at Merchant Taylor’s school; barrister L.I. 1 Feb. 1825; principal secretary to lord chancellor Lyndhurst; a comr. of bankrupts in London 1829–31; police magistrate at Union Hall police Southwark court 7 Oct. 1830 to Dec. 1834; secretary and treasurer to ecclesiastical comrs. for England and Wales Dec. 1834 to Dec. 1849, when he owed them £6,000; went to Melbourne, Victoria 1852. d. Sydney, N.S.W. 1865.
MURRAY, Daniel (son of a farmer). b. Sheepwalk, near Arklow, co. Wicklow 18 April 1768; studied at Dublin and at Salamanca 1784; R.C. curate at St. Paul, Dublin 1790, and then at Arklow to 1798; C. of St. Mary, Dublin 1798–1809; prebendary of Wicklow 1805; coadjutor archbishop of Dublin, with title of archbishop of Hierapolis 30 Nov. 1809; archbishop of Dublin 1823 to death; had a long controversy respecting The Notes of the Douay Bible and Rhenish New Testament 1826 to 1850; president of Maynooth college; established the order of the Sisters of Charity; a comr. of national board of education 1831 to death; took part in the synod of the R.C. clergy at Thurles 1850; author of A pastoral address announcing the miraculous cure of Mrs. M. Stuart 1823, a work to which replies were printed. d. Mountjoy sq. Dublin 26 Feb. 1852, body embalmed. bur. pro-cathedral, Marlborough st. Dublin 2 March, where is marble statue of him in memorial monument by James Farrell; marble bust in Irish national gallery, Dublin. J. D’Alton’s Memoirs of archbishops of Dublin (1838) 488–92; D. Murray’s Sermons, 2 vols. Dublin (1859) portrait; Notices of D. Murray, archbishop of Dublin by W. Meagher (1853) memoir pp. 53–142.