MURRAY, Henry Leigh, stage name of Henry Leigh Wilson (brother of Gaston Murray 1826–89). b. Sloane st. London 19 Oct. 1820; made his début as an actor at Hull 2 Dec. 1839; appeared at Adelphi theatre, Edinburgh 17 Sept. 1840; played in Edinburgh till 1845; first appeared in London at Princess’s theatre 19 April 1845 as sir Thomas Clifford in The hunchback; played with Macready at the Surrey 1846; acted at the Lyceum 1847; played Romeo at Dublin 1848; played at Windsor castle 1848 and 1849; stage manager at Strand 1847–50, and Olympic 1850–3 under Wm. Farren; played at Adelphi 1853 to Sept. 1854 and 4 Nov. 1856–7, at Sadler’s Wells 1855, at Drury Lane 1858, and at Lyceum 1859; made a great hit as Raphael Duchatlet in Selby’s The marble heart at Adelphi 31 May 1854; the original Harrington in James Kenney’s London Pride at St. James’s 9 Nov. 1859; his best parts were Gustave de Grignon in The ladies battle, Prince Maurice de Saxe in The reigning favourite, Harry Dornton in The road to ruin, and Burchell in The vicar of Wakefield; given a benefit at Drury Lane 27 June 1865; was the leading jeune premier of his day. d. 29 New Bridge st. London 17 Jany. 1870. bur. Brompton cemetery 22 Jany. W. Marston’s Our recent actors ii 307–9 (1888); Tallis’s Dramatic magazine (1851) 135–7 portrait; Tallis’s Drawing room table book, part 14 portrait; The Players iii 399 (1861), and iv 2 (1861); Theatrical Times i 161 (1847) portrait.
MURRAY, James. b. Armagh 9 Dec. 1831; articled with W. Scott of Liverpool, architect 1845; practised there in partnership with T. D. Barry; partner with E. W. Pugin at 14 Buckingham st. Strand, London 1857–9, dissolved partnership; practised at Coventry till his death; his chief works are the justice rooms, and the corn exchange, Coventry 1856; corn exchanges at Banbury 1857, and St. Albans 1858, besides churches at Warwick, Bolton, Sunderland, Newcastle, and Stratford-on-Avon; author of Modern architecture, ecclesiastic, civil, and domestic 1862; Gothic and classic buildings erected since 1850, part 1, Coventry 1862. d. Warwick Green south, Coventry 24 Oct. 1863. Builder xxi 780, 807, (1863).
MURRAY, Sir James (son of Edward Murray). b. co. Londonderry 1788; studied medicine in Edinburgh and Dublin; L.C.S. Edinb. 1807; M.C.S. Dublin 1808; M.D. Edinb. 1829; hon. M.D. Dublin 1832; physician at Belfast 1809 to 1829; resident physician to marquess of Anglesey, lord lieutenant of Ireland 1829, knighted by him 1833; resident physician to viscount Ebrington 1839, and to marquess of Normandy 1845; inspector of anatomy in Dublin nearly 40 years; established a manufactory for fluid magnesia which he had discovered 1817; probably the first to suggest electricity as a curative agent; author of Dissertation on the influence of heat and humidity 1829; Observations on fluid magnesia 1840; Electricity as a cause of cholera or other epidemics, Dublin 1849. d. 19 Upper Temple st. Dublin 8 Dec. 1871. bur. Glasnevin cemet. I.L.N. lix 618 (1871), lx 15, 16, (1872) portrait.
MURRAY, James. b. 1806; entered foreign office 11 Nov. 1826; assistant under secretary of state for foreign affairs 1 Oct. 1858 to 4 July 1869, when he retired on a pension of £1,375 a year; C.B. 7 Aug. 1869; F.R.G.S. d. 149 Sloane st. Chelsea 19 Feb. 1878.
MURRAY, James. b. 1802 or 1803; lost his sight at the age of five years; known as the blind poet of Galloway; author of The maid of Galloway, a tale of Thrieve and Otterburn 1850. d. middle of Aug. 1882. Athenæum 26 Aug. 1882 p. 273.
MURRAY, James Archibald (son of Charles Murray). b. 4 March 1797; ed. at Merchant Taylors’ school; solicitor in London 1820; second secretary to the master of the rolls 1820–1843; one of the clerks of records and writs in chancery 1851 to death. d. 7 Southwick st. Cambridge sq. London 23 Feb. 1873.
MURRAY, John (son of James Murray, sea-captain). b. Stranraer, Wigtownshire about 1786; lecturer on the philosophy of physics and of chemistry; lectured at the Surrey institution, Blackfriars road, London many years from 1816; F.L.S. 1819; F.S.A. 1822; F.G.S. 1823; F.H.S. 1824; author of Elements of chemical science 1815, 2 ed. 1818; A manual of experiments illustrative of chemical science, 5 ed. 1839; A treatise on atmospherical electricity 1830; The truth of revelation 1831 anon, 2 ed. 1840; Observations on flame and safety lamps 1833, and 23 other books. d. Broadstone house, near Stranraer 28 June 1851. bur. in Inch churchyard. Mining Journal 12 July 1851 p. 336.
MURRAY, John. b. 1798; succeeded David Laing the original Gretna Green blacksmith as keeper of the Sark toll-bar just over the Scotch border in Dumfriesshire, where he performed on an average 400 marriages a year up to 1856; keeper of the Sark Bar hotel. d. May 1861. P. O. Hutchinson’s Chronicles of Gretna Green ii 91 (1844); G.M. xi 96 (1861).
MURRAY, John (son of Andrew Murray, an advocate). b. Aberdeen 1843; educ. Aberdeen univ., M.B. and C.M. 1865, M.D. 1867; M.R.C.S. Eng. 1865; M.R.C.P. Lond. 1870; studied in London, Paris, Berlin and Vienna; hospital reporter to The British Medical journal 1867, sub-editor to his decease; assist. physician and lecturer on pathology Middlesex hospital, became dean 1868; visited the ambulances around Sedan 1870; assist. physician Children’s hospital Great Ormond st. 1871. d. after an operation for tracheotomy 42 Harley st. London 15 Oct. 1873. bur. Aberdeen. British medical journal 18 Oct. 1873 p. 476; The Lancet 18 Oct. 1873 p. 577.
MURRAY, John. b. Kelso 12 Dec. 1804; engineer to river Wear comrs. at Sunderland 1831; moved the Wear lighthouse in one solid piece to another site, a distance of more than 150 yards Aug. 1841, the lighthouse was 69 feet high and 15 feet in diameter at the base, constructed docks along the sea shore with an outlet into the river at one end and into Hendon bay at the other 1848–56; practised in London 1848–70; M.I.C.E. 12 March 1833, member of council 1859–71; author of An address on the sanitary improvement of the metropolis 1852; The tides and currents in the Polar seas, with reasons for persevering in the search for sir J. Franklin 1854. d. 2 Feb. 1882. Min. of Proc. of Instit. of C.E. lxxi 400–407 (1883); W. H. D. Adams’s Lighthouses (1870) 182–6 view of the Wear lighthouse.