Modern English biography

697 (1867). MURRAY, SIR HENRY (youngest son of David Murray, 2 earl of Mansfield 1727–96). _b._ 6 Aug. 1784; ed. at Westminster school; cornet 16 dragoons 16 May 1800; major 26 foot 26 March 1807; major 18 dragoons 2 Aug. 1810, lieut.-col. 2 Jany. 1812 to 10 Sept. 1821, when regiment was disbanded; placed on h.p. 10 Nov. 1821; served in Peninsular war and at Waterloo; col. 7 dragoon guards 18 Dec. 1847 to 18 March 1853; col. 14 dragoons 18 March 1853 to death; general 6 Feb. 1855; C.B. 22 June 1815, K.C.B. 18 May 1860; author of Memoirs of Capt. Arthur Stormont Murray 1859. _d._ Wimbledon 29 July 1860. 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.