MURRAY, John (eld. son of John Murray, publisher 1778–1843). b. London 16 April 1808; ed. at Charterhouse and univ. of Edinb. 1827; helped his father in the business 1830–43; publisher at 50 Albemarle st. 1843 to death; published many books by Borrow, Croker, Lyell, Lockhart, Hallam, sir F. Head, lord Stanhope, lord Campbell, and Grote, and the series known as Murray’s Handbooks; published the Quarterly Review 1843 to death; started Murray’s Mag. Jany. 1887 which ceased Dec. 1891; F.S.A. 2 March 1876; edited Unpublished letters of Laurence Sterne, Philobiblon Soc., Miscellanies vol. ii (1855–6) Tract xi; author of Hand-book for travellers in France 1843; Murray’s Hand-book for Belgium and the Rhine 1852; Scepticism in geology and the reason for it. By Verifier 1877, 2 ed. 1878. d. 50 Albemarle st. London 2 April 1892. bur. in Wimbledon parish church 6 April, net personal estate sworn at £71,390. S. Smiles’s A publisher and his friends vol. 2 (1891) passim; Curwen’s Booksellers (1873) 159–98; The Critic xx 17 (1860) portrait; Graphic 9 April 1892) p. 464 portrait; Saturday Review lxii 834.
MURRAY, Sir John Archibald (2 son of Alexander Murray, lord Henderland, Scottish judge 1736–95). b. Midlothian 1779; ed. at Edinburgh high school, Westminster school, and univ. of Edinb.; advocate Scottish bar 1799; on staff of Edinburgh review, joint editor with Sydney Smith and 3 others of Edinburgh review 1802, to which he contributed many years; founder of the Friday club 1805; M.P. Leith Dec. 1832 to April 1839; recorder of the great roll and clerk of the pipe; lord advocate 1834 and 20 April 1835 to 1839; judge of court of session with courtesy title of lord Murray April 1839 to death; knighted at St. James’s palace 24 April 1839; author of Letter to the lord advocate, on the procedure in the court of session and jury trials, by a member of court, Edinburgh 1850. d. 11 Great Stuart st. Edinburgh 7 March 1859. H. Martineau’s Biographical sketches (1876) 71–7; Memoirs of Francis Horner, 2 vols. 1853, this work is dedicated to Lord Murray and contains many letters to him; Crombie’s Modern Athenians (1882) 107–9 portrait; Law magazine and law review vii 182–7 (1859).
MURRAY, John Fisher (eld. son of sir James Murray, physician 1788–1871). b. Belfast 11 Feb. 1811; studied medicine; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1830, M.A. 1832; contributed to Blackwood’s Magazine sketches of London life, afterwards reprinted separately, and a series of papers in 1840 entitled Some account of himself, by the Irish oyster eater; wrote for the Belfast Vindicator and the Nation 1845; author of The Chinese and the ministry 1840; The Viceroy, a romance, 3 vols. 1841; The Environs of London, western division, Edinb. 1842; The world of London, 2 vols. Edinb. 1843, second series, 2 vols. London 1845. d. Dublin 20 Oct. 1865. bur. Glasnevin cemet. C. G. Duffy’s Young Ireland (1880) 14 et seq.
Note.—He also wrote The court doctor dissected 1839, second ed. entitled Lady Flora Hastings 1839. This refers to the conduct of Sir James Clark, M.D. in the case of Lady Flora Hastings, lady in waiting to the Queen, who was accused of being in a pregnant condition, when the appearance was caused by disease. There was much discussion, both in the newspapers and by pamphlets, on this case.
MURRAY, John O’Kane. b. Glenariffe, co. Antrim 12 Dec. 1847; went to U.S. of America June 1856; graduated at St. John’s college, Fordham, New York; practised medicine in Brooklyn, New York; worked from 12 to 16 hours a day for years; author of A popular history of the Catholic church in the United States 1876; The prose and poetry of Ireland 1877; The catholic heroes and heroines of America 1878; Little lives of the great saints 1879; The catholic pioneers of America 1881; Lessons in English literature 1883. d. Chicago 30 July 1885.
MURRAY, Mary Frances (dau. of Julio Henry Hughes of Adelphi theatre, London actor, his widow Fanny Hughes d. 12 April 1880). b. near Frankfort, Germany; first appeared on the stage 1851 at Guildford theatre as Sophia in The rendezvous; first appeared in London 23 Nov. 1853 at Lyceum as Emma Thornton in The bachelor of arts; played Ariel in The tempest at Sadler’s Wells 2 Oct. 1855; Esther in P. Simpson’s Daddy Hardacre 26 March 1857, Elvira in Brough’s burlesque Masaniello 2 July 1857, Violet in Oxenford’s Doubtful victory 19 April 1858, Alice in Oxenford’s Porter’s knot 2 Dec. 1858, Grace Emery in Craven’s Chimney corner 21 Feb. 1861, Amelia Howard in Horace Wigan’s Taming a truant 19 March 1863, Emily St. Evremond in Tom Taylor’s The ticket-of-leave man 27 May 1863, all at the Olympic; played Marion Vernon in Taylor and Dubourg’s A sister’s penance at Adelphi 26 Nov. 1866; Mrs. Singleton Bliss in Byron’s Cyril’s success at opening of Globe theatre 28 Nov. 1868; acted in Cheltnam’s drama Edendale and Gilbert’s extravaganza The pretty druidess at opening of Charing Cross theatre 19 June 1869; Marguerite in Burnand’s Very little Faust at same house 17 Aug. 1869; played Mrs. Merton in Byron’s Not such a fool as he looks 23 Oct. 1869, Chloe in Albury’s Oriana 15 Feb. 1873, both at Globe theatre; played Mrs. Magennis in Byron’s An American lady at opening of Criterion theatre 21 March 1874; Miss Tarragon in H. Aidé’s Nine days wonder 12 June 1875, Romona in W. Stephen’s Ethel’s revenge 9 Sept. 1876, Mrs. Meredith in C. F. Coghlan’s Brothers 4 Nov. 1876, Mrs. Primrose in W. G. Will’s Olivia 30 March 1878, all at Court theatre; played Miss Meryon in G. W. Godfrey’s Coralie 28 May 1881, Mrs. Preston in C. Scott’s The Cape mail 27 Oct. 1881, Miss Kilmore in B. C. Stephenson’s Impulse 9 Dec. 1882, all at St. James’s, and Mrs. Stonehay in A. W. Pinero’s The Profligate at opening of Garrick theatre 24 April 1889; m. Gaston Murray, who d. 8 Aug. 1889. d. 1 Trent road, Brixton, London 15 Jany. 1891. Pascoe’s Dramatic List (1880) 269; Illust. S. and D. news iii 513, 539 (1875) portrait.
MURRAY, Montagu. b. Edinburgh; educ. Glasgow; arrived at Port Nicholson with the New Zealand expedition co. as tailor to the emigrants 1840, when Wellington was founded; attached to the survey staff; proprietor of the Ship inn, Wellington; played Scotch characters in a bijou theatre; after the Wairoa massacres he removed to New South Wales 1843; tailor and actor in Sydney; a master tailor Little Collins st. Melbourne; organized and managed the Garrick club; opened the Queen’s theatre 1851; toured through New South Wales, Queensland, and South Australia; the original in the song, dialogue, and dance of The deil among the tailors; always known as Wee Murray; played Baillie Nicol Jarvie in Sydney, last time in 1869; settled in business with his son Donald Murray at Hay, N.S.W. 1869. d. Hay June 1880. The Era 1 Aug. 1880 p. 6.
MURRAY, Nicholas (son of Nicholas Murray, farmer). b. Ballynaskea, Westmeath 25 Dec. 1802; landed in New York July 1818; a printer 1818–21; became a Protestant 1821; graduated at Williams college 1826, and at Princetown theological seminary 1829; pastor of Presbyterian church in Elizabethtown, New Jersey 1833 to death; D.D. Williams college 1843; moderator of the general assembly 1850; under the signature of Kirwan he wrote Letters to the rt. hon. J. Hughes, Roman catholic bishop of New York 1848 two series, 1851 three series, and new ed. 1875; Kirwan’s Letter to Dr. Côte on baptism 1849; Romanism at home, being letters to the hon. Roger B. Taney 1852, 6 ed. 1852; Kirwan on Bedini and Dr. Duff, an address 1854, several replies were made to these works; author of Notes, historical and biographical, concerning Elizabeth Town 1844; Men and things as I saw them in Europe 1853; Parish and other pencillings 1855; Preachers and preaching 1860. d. Elizabethtown, New Jersey 4 Feb. 1861. S. I. Prime’s Memoir of N. Murray (1863) portrait.
MURRAY, Patrick Aloysius. b. Clones, co. Monaghan 18 Nov. 1811; ed. at Maynooth 1829–35; R.C. curate Francis st. Dublin 1835; professor of belles lettres Maynooth 7 Sept. 1838–41, and professor of theology 27 Aug. 1841 to death, nearly 2,000 priests were his pupils; prefect of Dunboyne house 1879 to death; contributed to Dublin Review many years; author of The Irish annual miscellany 1850; Essays, chiefly theological 1851; Sponsa mater et Christi 1858, a poem; Tractatus de ecclesia Christi, 3 vols. 1860–6, the most complete work on the subject; Prose and verse 1867; Tractatus de gratia 1877. d. Maynooth college 15 Nov. 1882. bur. Maynooth 18 Nov. Irish Monthly xix 337–46 (1891); Freeman’s Journal 17 Nov. 1882 p. 5.
MURRAY, Peter (son of Patrick Murray, M.D., assistant judge of supreme court of Jamaica). b. Montego bay, Jamaica 30 March 1782; ed. at Scarborough, Kensington and univ. of St. Andrews 1794; entered univ. of Edinb. 31 Oct. 1799, M.D. 24 June 1802; assistant physician at Finsbury dispensary, London 1803; practised at High Harrogate May 1804–12; at Knaresborough 1812 to Oct. 1826, and at Scarborough from 1826 to death. d. Belle Vue, near Scarborough 27 Feb. 1864. bur. Scarborough cemet. 5 March. The beloved physician by Rev. R. Balgarnie (1864).