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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. MURRAY, EDWARD (brother of Amelia Matilda Murray 1795–1884). _b._ Lower ward of Windsor castle 5 Nov. 1798; ed. at Westminster and Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1820, M.A. 1829; usher of Westminster school 1820–1; V. of Stinsford, Dorset 1823–37; R. of Winterbourn Monkton, Dorset 1831–37; V. of Northolt, Middlesex 1837 to death; prebendary of St. Paul’s 1 Dec. 1848 to death; author of Prayers and collects, translated from the annotations of Calvin 1825; Enoch Restitutus, the book of Enoch with parallel passages from the scriptures 1836. _d._ Northolt 1 July 1852. _G.M. xxxviii_ 317 (1852). NOTE.--He applied the Archimedian screw to the purposes of navigation in 1823 and many of his lines were used in the admiralty and in men of war. He was a member of the Chess Club and beat France when he played for England more than once. MURRAY, ELIZABETH (dau. of Thomas Heaphy president of Society of British artists 1775–1835). Educ. at Rome; while sketching at Cambray was arrested as a spy; sent to Malta by queen Adelaide to take some views 1836; exhibited 18 portraits at R.A. 1834–47; resided in America 12 years; visited Rome 1875; author of Sixteen years of an artist’s life in Morocco, Spain and the Canary islands, 2 vols. 1859; _m._ Henry John Murray, British consul in Maine, U.S. of America 1860–76; consul at Buenos Ayres 1876, retired on a pension 1 Oct. 1879. She _d._ San Remo, Italy 8 Dec. 1882. _Ellen C. Clayton’s English female artists ii_ 111–16 (1876). MURRAY, ELIZABETH (2 dau. of Henry Lee, dramatist and manager 1765–1836). _b._ 15 May 1816; acted Little Pickle in The spoilt child at Barnstaple theatre 1821; played in her father’s theatres in West of England, and then at Manchester, Liverpool, and Leeds; first appeared in London at Olympic as Cupid in extravaganza Cupid; played at Covent Garden 30 Sept. 1839, then at Sadler’s Wells and in Birmingham; leading lady at Adelphi theatre, Edinburgh 1841; played Apollo in Frank Talfourd’s burlesque, Diogenes and his lantern at Strand 7 Feb. 1850; played at Olympic Oct. 1850, at Adelphi April 1853; the original Madame Duchatlet in The marble heart at Adelphi 31 May 1854; played Victorine in Victorine, or I’ll sleep on it 30 Aug. 1855; played Lady Lavender in S. Coyne’s comedy The love knot at Drury Lane 8 March 1858; the original Mrs. Burr in J. Oxenford’s The porter’s knot 2 Dec. 1858, Patty in Craven’s Chimney Corner 21 Feb. 1861, Mrs. Major de Boots in S. Coyne’s comedy Everybody’s Friend 17 May 1865, all at Olympic; played Lady Selina Raffle-ticket in Dion Boucicault’s How she loves him 21 Dec. 1867, Mrs. Kinpeck in Robertson’s Play 15 Feb. 1868, Lady Franklyn in Bulwer’s Money 4 May 1872, lady Lundie in W. Collins’s Man and wife 22 Feb. 1873, Mrs. Candour in The school for scandal 4 April 1874, all at Prince of Wales’s theatre; played Mrs. Crumbley in Burnand’s comedy A proof positive at Opéra Comique 16 Oct. 1875, Madame Seneschal in Fernande 20 Sept. 1879, and Mrs. M’Tartar in Byron’s comedy Courtship 16 Oct. 1879, both at Court theatre; played Neeltje Kwak in Faassen’s play Annie Mie at Prince of Wales’s 1 Nov. 1880; the original Lady Tompkins in Burnand’s The Colonel at Prince of Wales’s 2 Feb. 1881, and Mrs. Goddard in Jones and Herman’s Breaking a butterfly 3 March 1884, the first English version of Ibsen’s Doll’s House, and Mrs. Stead in The private secretary 29 March 1884, both at Prince’s theatre; given a benefit at Haymarket theatre 9 May 1888, when she played Mrs. Foley in Forget me not; _m._ at Edinburgh 26 Oct. 1841 Henry Leigh Murray, actor, who _d._ 29 Jany. 1870. She _d._ 25 May 1892. _bur._ Brompton cemet. 28 May. _Theatrical Times iii_ 381, 382 (1848) _portrait_. MURRAY, EUSTACE CLARE GRENVILLE (natural son of Richard Plantagenet, 2 duke of Buckingham and Chandos 1797–1861). _b._ 1824; matric. from Magd. hall, Oxf. 1 March 1848; student of the Inner Temple 1850; attaché to embassy at Vienna 14 July 1851, acted as correspondent of the Morning Post, but was forbidden to continue his correspondence; attaché at Constantinople 1852; vice-consul to Mitylene 1853–4; attaché at Teheran 1857; consul general at Odessa 24 July 1858, dismissed by lord Stanley 28 May 1868; returned to England 1868 and contributed to the first number of Vanity Fair 7 Nov. 1868; started a weekly journal entitled The Queen’s Messenger 21 Jany. 1869; horsewhipped by lord Carrington outside the Conservative club 22 June 1869 for a libel upon his father Robert John, 2 baron Carrington 1796–1868; charged with perjury at Bow st. 17 July 1869, fled from his bail to Paris; lived in Paris July 1869 to death, where he took the title of his Spanish wife, comte de Rethel d’Aragon; Paris correspondent of the Daily News and Pall Mall gazette; proprietor with E. H. Yates of The World for a short time from July 1874; author of The roving Englishman 1854, 2 ed. 1855; The member for Paris: a tale of the second empire. By Trois-Etoiles, 3 vols. 1871; Men of the second empire 1872; Men of the third republic 1873; Young Brown, or the law of inheritance 1874; The Russians of to-day 1878; Side lights on English society, 2 vols. 1881; High life in France under the republic 1884; Under the lens, social photographs, 2 vols. 1885. _d._ Passy, near Paris 20 Dec. 1881. _bur._ Paris 24 Dec. _E. Yates’s Recollections ii_ 309–30 (1884); _J. Hatton’s Journalistic London_ (1882) 106–10; _Fox Bourne’s English Newspapers ii_ 301–11 (1887); _Biograph vi_ 585 (1881); _Truth 29 Dec. 1881 pp._ 24–5; _A.R._ (1869) 79–82; _Papers relating to Mr. G. Murray_, _Parliamentary Papers 1868–69_, _No._ 4163. MURRAY, FREEMAN. _b._ 16 Nov. 1804; ensign 64 foot 24 Feb. 1825, captain 21 Dec. 1832; captain 60 foot 11 July 1834, major 20 Aug. 1844; major 17 foot 23 April 1847, lieut. col. 5 Nov. 1847, placed on h.p. same day; lieut. col. 72 foot 11 Sept. 1849, placed on h.p. 5 May 1854; governor of Bermuda 1854–61; commanded Chatham district 1 Jany. 1867 to 31 March 1870, and Eastern district 1 April 1870 to 31 Dec. 1871; col. of 57 foot 14 April 1873, of 93 foot 11 Dec. 1875, and of 60 foot 11 Oct. 1876 to death; general 1 Oct. 1877. _d._ Florence 14 April 1885. MURRAY, GASTON, stage name of Garstin Parker Wilson. _b._ London 1826; first appeared on the stage at Prince’s theatre, Glasgow June 1854, as Charles in The happiest day of my life; first appeared in London 2 March 1855, at the Lyceum as Tom Saville in Used up; played sir George Evelyn in Mrs. Inchbald’s Wives as they were and maids as they are 24 Nov. 1856; Charles Rushout in Tom Taylor’s Going to the bad 5 June 1858, both at Olympic; took part in the Windsor castle theatricals in Jany. 1857, appearing as Jules de Crussac in Secret Service; played Alfred Warnford in Oxenford’s Lost Hope at Adelphi 16 Feb. 1859; Vicentio in Falconer’s The Leprechaun 2 March 1859, and Leonardo in Falconer’s Francesca 30 March 1859, both at Lyceum; played Charles Chetty in Craven’s Chimney Corner at Olympic 21 Feb. 1861, George Talboys in Lady Audley’s Secret 28 Feb. 1863, Mr. Monkton in Eleanor’s Victory 29 May 1865, both at St. James’s; played Wm. Fielding in Charles Reade’s Never too late to mend at Princess’s 4 Oct. 1865; Sir George Touchwood in The Belle’s Stratagem 8 Oct. 1866, Tomaso in W. S. Gilbert’s burlesque Dulcamara 29 Dec. 1866, and Baron Lintz in Idalia 25 April 1867, all at St. James’s; played Edward Ashley in Miss Le Thiere’s All for money at Haymarket 12 July 1869; Bracassin in Fernande 15 Oct. 1870, and lord Leyton de Lay in Albery’s Two Thorns 4 March 1871, both at St. James’s; played Prince of Hesselstadt in Edmund Kean at Holborn 23 Sept. 1871; acted in Pickwick and The Bells at Lyceum 1871; played Pickwick at Standard theatre 1872; treasurer to Earl of Londesborough when he produced Babil and Bijou at Covent Garden 29 Aug. 1872; secretary of the General theatrical fund 1880–2. _d._ 8 Aug. 1889. _bur._ Nunhead cemet. 12 Aug., left a widow and 5 daughters. _The Era 10 Aug. 1889 p._ 8, _17 Aug. p._ 8. MURRAY, GEORGE (brother of Amelia Matilda Murray 1795–1884). _b._ Farnham 12 Jany. 1784; ed. at Harrow and at Ch. Ch. Oxf., student, B.A. 1806, M.A. 1810, D.D. 1814; R. of Bocking, Essex 1802; R. of Woodchurch, Kent 1808; V. of Broadwindsor 1813; archdeacon of Isle of Man 29 Sept. 1808; bishop of Sodor and Man 22 May 1813, consecrated in Whitehall chapel 6 March 1814; bishop of Rochester 24 Nov. 1827 to death; dean of Worcester 19 March 1828 to 1854; printed Charges and Sermons 1832–43; went to Hanover to confirm the Crown prince 1838. _d._ 77 Chester sq. London 16 Feb. 1860. _Portraits of eminent conservatives_, _2nd series_ (1846) _portrait_ 21. MURRAY, GEORGE (son of John Murray of Troquhain). _b._ Galloway 1808; presbyterian minister, licensed 8 June 1836; assistant and successor to minister of Balmaclellan, Kirkcudbright 8 March 1837; minister at Girthon 1843; synod clerk 24 Oct. 1843; readmitted minister at Balmaclellan 23 Oct. 1851; principal of Edinburgh Institution; wrote two curling songs The broom and the channelstane, Carle now the frost’s come 1854, and The bridge