MURRAY, Richard. b. 1777; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1802, M.A. 1807, D.B. and D.D. 1830; dean of Ardagh 10 Feb. 1829 to death; author of Practical remarks on book of Genesis 1827; Outlines of the history of the catholic church in Ireland 1840; Ireland and her church 1845; The church of St. John in Ireland 1849. d. Exmouth, Devon 2 Aug. 1854.
MURRAY, Robert Fuller (eld. child of John Murray of Roxbury in Massachusets, unitarian minister, who d. 1886). b. Roxbury 26 Dec. 1863; taken to England 1869; lived at Kelso 1869–71, at York 1871, then at Canterbury; ed. at Ilminster and Crewkerne gr. schools; entered at univ. of St. Andrews 1881 with a scholarship won as an external student of Manchester New college; wrote verse in the University paper afterwards called College Echoes; assisted professor J. M. D. Meiklejohn of St. Andrews, in literary and academic work 1886–9, left St. Andrews May 1889; wrote leader-notes for the Scottish leader May 1889 to about 6 Aug. 1889; wrote pieces of verse in Longman’s Magazine, Punch, and St. James’s Gazette; his book The Scarlet Gown, verses by a St. Andrews man, was published by his friend A. M. Holden 1891. d. Laurel bank, Ilminster, Somerset 17 Jany. 1894. Robert F. Murray, his poems, with a memoir by Andrew Lang (1894); Longman’s Mag. April 1894 pp. 644–50.
MURRAY, Sir Terence Aubrey (son of Terence Murray, captain 48 foot, a settler at Lake George, N.S.W.) b. Limerick 1810; went to New South Wales with his father 1827; gazetted a magistrate 1833, when he helped to repress bush ranging; member for Murray, King, and Georgiana in legislature of N.S.W. 1843–56; member for Argyle in the legislative assembly 1856–62; member for the Southern Boroughs 1856; secretary for lands and works 26 Aug. 1856 to 2 Oct. 1856, and 7 September 1857 to 12 January 1858; speaker of the legislative assembly 31 Jany. 1860; member of legislative council 1862 to death; president 14 Oct. 1862 to death; knighted by patent 4 May 1869. d. Sydney 22 June 1873. Australian men of mark i 159–64 (1889) portrait.
MURRAY, Thomas. b. parish of Girthon, Kirkcudbrightshire 1792; entered univ. of Edinb. 1810; a licensed minister in the established church and a preacher for some time; wrote for sir David Brewster’s Cyclopædia; helped to found the Edinburgh Galloway Association 1843, secretary 1843 to death; secretary of Edinburgh School of Art 1844 to death; established at 21 George st. Edinb. the printing business of Murray and Gibb 1841, the firm became her majesty’s printers for Scotland, he retired about 1860; member of Edinb. town council 1854–60; author of The literary history of Galloway 1822; The life of Samuel Rutherford 1828; The life of Robert Leighton 1828; The life of John Wycliffe 1829; Biographical annals of the parish of Colinton 1863. d. Elm Bank, Lasswade, near Edinburgh 15 April 1872. Rev. C. Rogers’s Leaves from my autobiography (1876) 77.
MURRAY, Thomas. b. Paisley 1801; founded firm of Thomas Murray and Son, booksellers and publishers 8 Argyll st. Glasgow, removed to 31 Buchanan st., retired some years before his death; member of Glasgow town council; with A. K. Murray published Murray’s Handbooks for Scotland, Glasgow 1852–6, eleven numbers; Murray’s Railway readings 1867 etc. d. 7 Royal crescent, Crosshill, Glasgow 13 Jany. 1884.
MURRAY, Thomas Boyles (son of Charles Murray, solicitor, d. 1847). b. 16 Dec. 1798; educ. Merchant Taylors’ sch., Parkin’s exhibitioner to Pemb. coll. Camb. 1817, B.A. 1821, M.A. 1824; C. of Starcross, Devon; C. of St. Olave’s, Hart st. London; assistant secretary to soc. for promoting Christian knowledge 1835, joint secretary to 1860; P.C. of St. Dunstan in the East 28 Feb. 1837 to death; prebendary of St. Paul’s cath. March 1843 to death; author of A notice of Ely chapel, Holborn 1840; An alphabet of emblems 1844; The children in St. Paul’s, the anniversary of the assembled charity schools 1851; Pitcairn, the island, the people, and the pastor 1853; Chronicles of a city church, St. Dunstan in the east 1859; A concordance to the Old and New Testament and the Apocrypha 1859. d. 30 Brunswick sq. London 24 Sept. 1860. bur. Kensal Green cemet. Gent. Mag. ix 556 (1860); I.L.N. xxvi 269 (1855) portrait.
MURRAY, Thomas Graham (3 son of Andrew Murray of Murrayshall, Perthshire 1782–1847). b. Edinburgh 24 Nov. 1816; educ. Edinb. academy and univ.; writer to the signet 22 Nov. 1838; senior partner in firm of Tods, Murray, and Jamieson, retired 1879; member of royal commission on the law of hypothec 1864, and on law courts of Scotland 1868; crown agent 1866–8; convener of endowment scheme of established church of Scotland 1887, under his supervision 100 churches were built; LL.D. of Edinb. univ. 1888; purchased Stenton estate, Perthshire 1860; member for Dunkeld of Perthshire county council; lieut. then capt. to writer to the Signet’s volunteer corps. d. 11 Randolph crescent, Edinburgh 10 March 1891. bur. Dean cemetery 14 March, portrait by George Reid, R.S.A., exhibited at R.S.A. 1891. The Scotsman 11 March 1891 p. 7.
MURRAY, William. b. Portsea, Hants. 1796; admitted solicitor 1817; partner with Wm. Osbaldeston in city of London 1817–34, practised alone 1834–57; partner with his son C. F. Murray and F. L. Hutchens 1857–67, retired from practise 1867; member of council of Incorporated law society 26 June 1855, retired 1867; M.P. Newcastle under Lyme 1859–65. d. 7 Warrior terrace, St. Leonard’s 27 Oct. 1870. Solicitor’s Journal 5 Nov. 1870 p. 14.
MURRAY, William (son of Mrs. Murray who lived at 33 Harley st. London in 1861). Ensign 97 foot 9 March 1838, lieut. 29 May 1840; captain 10 hussars 3 Sept. 1847; captain 12 lancers 1 May 1857, sold out 4 Dec. 1857; served in Crimean war 1855; major in the army 26 Dec. 1856; resided at Elm lodge, Talbot road, Tottenham 1861; had a desperate fight with W. J. Roberts a money lender at Roberts’ chambers 16 Northumberland st. Strand 12 July 1861, Roberts died in Charing Cross hospital 19 July, the coroner’s jury returned a verdict of justifiable homicide 25 July; Roberts was in love with Murray’s mistress Anna Maria Moody and tried to kill Murray by shooting him. A.R. (1861) 119–26; J. Irving’s Annals of our time 2 ed. (1876) 606–7; Illust. Times 20 July 1861 p. 46, 27 July pp. 56–9 and 3 Aug. pp. 72–4, portrait of Miss A. M. Moody and view of 16 Northumberland st.
MURRAY, William David (only son of 4 Earl of Mansfield, b. 1806). b. Scone palace, Perthshire 12 July 1835; styled viscount Stormont 1840 to death; ensign grenadier guards 21 July 1854, sold out 27 Sept. 1856; served in Crimean war 1855; lieut. col. commandant of Perthshire militia 22 Dec. 1871 to death; commanded Tay brigade of volunteer infantry 4 Aug. 1888 to death; militia A.D.C. to the Queen 10 May 1892 to death; vice lieut. of Perthshire 1879 to death; a comr. of supply about 1880; member of the road board and of Perth district committee March 1881, chairman of the committee to 1892; chairman of the county road trustees. d. Scone palace, 12 Oct. 1893.