Modern English biography

_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.