Modern English biography

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. 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