MURRAY, William Henderson. Apprentice to a shoemaker at Cupar-Fife; designer, engraver and afterwards reporter on the Fife Herald at Cupar; reporter to Falkirk Herald; connected with Edinburgh guardian; editor and manager of Daily Express, Edinb. 1856, then joint proprietor with Joseph Ebenezer Cupples, latterly sole proprietor, his name appears on the paper as printer until No. 1014, Sept. 23, 1858. d. at house of his father-in-law, Charles Duncan, painter Cupar 25 July 1858. The Fife Herald 29 July 1858, p. 2.
MURRAY, William Henry Wood (son of Charles Murray, actor and dramatist 1754–1821). b. Bath 26 Aug. 1790; played small parts at Covent Garden 1803–4; first appeared at T.R. Edinburgh as Count Cassel in Lover’s vows 20 Nov. 1809; manager of theatre royal in Shakspere sq. Edinburgh April 1815 to death; played Captain Thornton in Rob Roy Macgregor, produced 15 Feb. 1819, which ran 41 nights; played Wamba in his drama Ivanhoe 24 Nov. 1823; made a great hit as Paul Pry Nov. 1825; produced his farce No, 10 Feb. 1827, and his drama Gilderoy 25 June 1827; lessee of T.R. Edinburgh 1830 to death, opened 17 Nov. 1830; lessee with F. H. Yates of Adelphi theatre, Edinb. 1830–1, sole lessee 1831 to death; last appeared in Edinb. at Adelphi as Sir Anthony Absolute 22 Oct. 1851; author of Mary, queen of Scots 4 July 1825; Gilderoy, a drama 25 June 1827; Dominique the deserter, a comic drama 16 Nov. 1831; Philippe or the secret marriage 15 July 1834; Cramond Brig or the Gudeman o’ Ballangeich 17 Jany. 1834; Diamond cut diamond, Adelphi theatre Aug. 1838; Romeo and Juliet, a burlesque; Oliver Twist, a drama 23 March 1840. d. St. Andrews 5 May 1852. bur. in the cathedral burying ground, portrait by sir Wm. Allan in Scottish national portrait gallery. B. W. Crombie’s Modern Athenians (1882) 170–2 portrait; The Town ii 766, 778 (1839); J. C. Dibdin’s Annals of Edinburgh stage (1888) 260, 349, 422, 509 portrait; The Farewell addresses of W. H. Murray, with a biographical sketch (1851).
MURRAY, William Powell (7 son of Charles Murray of Petworth, Sussex). b. London 23 March 1817; educ. Westminster 1829, King’s scholar 1831, elected as head boy to Trin. coll. Camb. 1835, B.A. 1839, M.A. 1842; barrister L.I. 23 Nov. 1841; practised in the chancery courts; registrar of bankruptcy court, Manchester 26 March 1863, registrar in London 1863 to death. d. Newgrove, Upper Norwood 20 Aug. 1885. bur. Shirley churchyard, Surrey. Law Times 19 Sept. 1885 p. 347.
MURRAY-DUNLOP, Alexander Colquhoun Stirling (eld. son of Alexander Dunlop of Keppoch Dumbartonshire banker). b. Greenock 27 Dec. 1798; ed. at Greenock gr. sch. and univ. of Edinb.; called to Scottish bar 1820; assessor to town of Greenock; fought a duel with James Colquhoun, eldest son of Sir James Colquhoun, 3 baronet, about 1825; framer of the “Claim of rights” for the Free church of Scotland and of the “Protest” made on occasion of the disruption 1843; legal adviser to Free church 1843 to death: contested Greenock March 1845 and July 1847; M.P. Greenock 1852–68; hon. LL.D. Princetown univ. U.S. of America; assumed additional surname of Murray on death of John Murray of Edinb. 1849, and names of Colquhoun Stirling on death of W. C. Stirling 1866; author of A treatise on the poor law. d. Corsach, Kirkcudbrightshire 1 Sept. 1870. Law Times 10 Sept. 1870 p. 357.
MURRIETA, Cristobal de. b. Spain 1789; a merchant at 5 Bloomfield st. Moorfields, City of London 1825; took his sons Mariano and Jose into partnership 1850, the business was principally with Spain and South America and was carried on at 7 Adam court, Old Broad st. from 1847, it was converted into a limited liability company 21 March 1891, which failed 30 July 1892; knight grand cross of Spanish order of Charles III. d. 11 Kensington palace gardens, London 17 Nov. 1868, personalty sworn under £600,000 Jany. 1869.
MURSELL, James (son of the succeeding). b. Leicester 22 July 1829; in office of sir Morton Peto, Westminster 1846; educ. Bristol coll. 1850; Baptist minister at Kettering 1852–70; at Hallfield chapel, Bradford 1870–2; at Berwick st. chapel, Newcastle 1872 to death; attended the opening of Mr. Wall’s Baptist chapel in Rome 1875; author of Our relations with India 1857; The principal historical associations of Northamptonshire 1861. d. Newcastle 28 May 1875. S. A. Swaine’s Faithful men (1884) 330–2; The Baptist handbook 1876 pp. 378–80.
MURSELL, James Philippo (son of William Mursell, ironmonger). b. High st. Lymington, Hants 7 Sept. 1799; educ. Newbury and at Bristol academy; Baptist minister at Wells, at Birmingham, at Leicester 1826, resigned 1875 when he was presented with £1,600; first chairman of Baptist union at Birmingham 1864; a founder of the voluntary church society at Leicester 1836 and of the Nonconformist newspaper 1841; took the name of Philippo, after his friend James Philippo, a missionary in Jamaica; author of Letters on education 1831; Reasons for not observing fasts, 2 ed. 1847; Robert Hall, his genius and writings 1854; A zealous ministry, its character and its worth 1857. d. Leicester 2 Nov. 1885. A. Mursell’s J. P. Mursell (1886) portrait; The Baptist handbook 1886 pp. 131–3.
MURTON, Frederic (son of Mr. Murton, commandant of marines, Chatham). b. Chatham 24 March 1817; articled to colonel George Landmann 1834, employed by him on Preston and Wyre railway 1837; resident engineer upon the Paris, Rouen, Havre, and Dieppe railway; engaged by Thomas Brassey on Paris, Lyons, Avignon and Marseilles railway, presented by his employer with £5,000; in practice in Paris; carried out a railway from Gladbach to Venlo; examined railway projects in Portugal and North America; M.I.C.E. 1 March 1864. d. 85 Addison road, Kensington, London 17 Jany. 1889. Min. of Proc. of Instit. of C.E. xcvi 326–8 (1889).
MUSGRAVE, Anthony. b. Antigua Nov. 1793; ed. at Edmonton and Edinb., M.D. June 1814; annual president of Edinb. medical society; partner with H. M. Daniell at Antigua 1815; partner with Robert Crichton 1824 to Crichton’s death 1827; member of house of assembly 1817; treasurer of Antigua 1824 to death; partner with Thomas Nicholson 1827 to death; wrote in the Medico Chirurgical transactions of London, a history of the yellow fever which broke out in Antigua June 1816; wrote articles in the medical papers. d. Antigua 24 Feb. 1852.
MUSGRAVE, Sir Anthony (son of the preceding). b. 1828; private secretary to R. J. Mackintosh, governor of Leeward Islands 1850–1; student at Inner Temple 1851; treasury accountant at Antigua 1852, colonial secretary 1854–60; administrator at Nevis Oct. 1860, and at St. Vincent April 1861; lieut. governor St. Vincent May 1862; governor of Newfoundland April 1864, and of British Columbia 8 Nov. 1869; lieutenant governor of Natal 25 May 1872; governor of South Australia 6 March 1873; governor and captain-general in Jamaica 8 June 1877; governor and commander-in-chief in Queensland 21 July 1883 to death; C.M.G. 23 Feb. 1871, K.C.M.G. 30 Aug. 1875, G.C.M.G. 6 June 1885; author of Studies in political economy 1875. d. Government house, Brisbane 9 Oct. 1888.