MURRAY-PULTENEY, SIR JAMES, BART., only son of Sir Robert Murray, Bart., Receiver-Gen. of Customs (S), and his first wife Hon. Janet Murray, fourth dau. of Alexander Murray, 4th Baron Elibank (S); b. c. 1755; at school under Markham [although no source cited by Russell Barker & Stenning]; entered army as Lieut., 105th Foot 25 Dec 1762; half-pay 1763; 19th Foot 2 Mar 1770; Capt., 57th Foot 30 Apr 1771; Maj., 4th Foot 31 Jan 1778; Brevet Lieut. -Col., 6 Feb 1780; Lieut. -Col., 94th Foot 2 Mar 1780; half-pay 1783; Col. and ADC to George III 18 Nov 1789; Major-Gen., 20 Dec 1793; Col., 18th Foot, from 26 Feb 1794; Lieut. -Gen., 26 Jun 1799; Gen., 25 Apr 1808; succ. father as 7th baronet 21 Sep 1771; served in America 1775-7, West Indies 1778-80; Adjutant-Gen. to Duke of York in Flanders 1793-4; accompanied Abercromby to Netherlands 1799, wounded; commanded unsuccessful expedition against Ferrol Aug 1800; second in command to Abercromby in demonstration against Cadiz Oct 1800; MP Weymouth and Melcombe Regis from 1790; assumed additional surname of Pulteney 22 Jul 1794, on eve of marriage; Secretary at War 30 Mar 1807 – Jun 1809; Privy Councillor 30 Mar 1807; m. 23 Jul 1794 Henrietta Laura, Countess of Bath, only dau. of Sir William Johnstone (afterwards Pulteney), Bart., MP; d. 26 Apr 1811, from effects of the busting of his powder flask when shooting. DNB.
MURRAY, SIR WILLIAM, BART., brother of Sir John Murray, Bart. (qv); b.; adm. 4 Nov 1778; KS (aged 13) 1782; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1786, matr. 14 Jun 1786, Westminster Sudent 23 Dec 1786 – void 14 May 1796 (expiry year of grace as V. West Lavington from 7 May 1795); BA 1790; MA 1793; ordained; Rector of West Lavington, Wilts., 1795; Rector of Lofthouse, Yorks., from 18 Nov 1802; succ. brother as 9th baronet 15 Oct 1827; m. 1809 Esther Jane, dau. of George Gayton (IGI); d. 14 May 1842.
MURRAY, WILLIAM, son of Alexander Murray, Lord Henderland, an Ordinary Lord of Session, and Catharine, dau. of Sir Alexander Lindsay, Bart.; b. 31 Jul 1774; adm. 25 Sep 1786; KS 1787; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1791, matr. 22 Jun 1791, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1791 – void 25 Jun 1804; BA 1795; MA 1798; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 27 Jun 1793, called to bar 9 May 1800; member, Board of Supervision for Relief of Poor in Scotland 2 Jan 1851; d. 3 Oct 1854.
MURRAY, WILLIAM, 1ST EARL OF MANSFIELD, fourth son of David Murray, 5th Viscount Stormont (S), and Margery, only child of David Scott, Scotstarvet, Fifeshire; b. 2 Mar 1704/5; adm. May 1718; for his journey from Scotland to Westminster on back of his pony, and for some curious items in the account of monies disbursed on his behalf before and after admission, see Lord Campbell, Lives of the Chief Justices, ii, 313-6; KS (Capt. ) 1719; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1723, matr. 18 Jun 1723, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1723 – void 29 Jun 1737; BA 1727; MA 1730; defeated William Pitt (Earl of Chatham) in competition for prize offered by University for a Latin poem on the death of George I; Grand Tour; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 23 Apr 1724, called to bar 23 Nov 1730, Bencher 15 Dec 1742, Treasurer 1744; practised in Court of Chancery, and within two years of call had appeared in three appeal cases before House of Lords; KC 1742; Solicitor-Gen., 27 Nov 1742 – Apr 1754; MP Boroughbridge 29 Nov 1742 – 8 Nov 1756; his success in the House of Commons was as brilliant as his success at the bar, and he came to be regarded as the ablest government spokesman in the House; to discredit him, an old story was raked up about his toasting the Pretender in the company of James Johnson (adm. 1717/8, qv) and Andrew Stone (qv), but the Privy Council reported that there was no foundation for the charge; it was subsequently the subject of a debate in the House of Lords on 22 Mar 1753, but the Duke of Bedford’s motion for the production of the proceedings before the Privy Council was rejected by 122 votes to 5, and no further enquiry was made (Campbell, ii, 370-6; Walpole, Letters, ed. Toynbee, iii, 148; the papers relating to the charge of toasting are in the British Library, Newcastle MSS 33050, ff. 200-368); Attorney-Gen., 9 Apr 1754 – Nov 1756; defended the Duke of Newcastle’s administration against attacks by Pitt in the House of Commons; on the death in 1756 of Sir Dudley Ryder, Lord Chief Justice, Murray claimed the vacant post and a peerage; Lord Chief Justice of England 8 Nov 1756 – 4 Jun 1788; created Baron Mansfield 8 Nov 1756; Privy Councillor 19 Nov 1756; held seals of Chancellor of the Exchequer Apr – Jun 1757, Sep – Dec 1767; accepted cabinet seat in Duke of Newcastle’s second administration, without office but with disposal of the Scottish patronage, Jul 1757; created Earl of Mansfield 31 Oct 1776, with special remainder to Louisa, wife of his nephew David Murray, 7th Viscount Stormont (S) (qv); owing to his approval of the Roman Catholic Relief Bill of 1778, his house in Bloomsbury Square was sacked and burned by the Gordon Rioters 7 Jun 1780; the loss of his library and MSS was lamented by William Cowper (qv) in some charming verses (Works, ed. Southey, viii, 322-3); spoke for last time in House of Lords 23 Mar 1784; after 1788 lived in retirement at Caen Wood, Highgate; received a new creation as Earl of Mansfield 1 Aug 1792, with special remainder to his nephew David Murray, 7th Viscount Stormont (S) (qv); the position which he held for many years as a Cabinet minister was anomalous; in Feb 1775 he stated in the House of Lords that “he had been a Cabinet Minister part of the late reign, and the whole of the present”, but that he had ceased “to act as an efficient Cabinet minister” shortly before the formation of the Rockingham ministry (Parliamentary History, xviii, 274-5); twice refused post of Lord Chancellor, but acted as Speaker of House of Lords Jan 1770 – Jan 1771 and Feb – Dec 1783; as a parliamentary speaker Pitt was his only rival; by birth a Jacobite and by association a Tory, his politics were more or less dominated by his legal interests; his reputation as a statesman is somewhat blurred by his support of the coercing of the American colonies; as an advocate known as “the silver-tongued Murray”; his ascendancy as Lord Chief Justice is indicated by the claim that during the thirty-two years that he held office there were only two cases in which his opinion was not unanimously adopted by his colleagues, and that only two of his judgments were reversed on appeal (Campbell, ii, 395-6); Mansfield’s charges to juries on the law of libel made him unpopular with contemporary public opinion, and he was violently attacked by Junius; the founder of modern commercial law and one of the greatest of common law judges; as a young man a friend of Pope, who dedicated to him his Sixth Epistle of the First Book of Horace, and cdelebrated his charms in Book IV, Ode I; Busby Trustee 25 Feb 1741/2; m. 20 Sep 1738 Lady Elizabeth Finch, seventh dau. of Daniel Finch, 6th Earl of Winchilsea and 2nd Earl of Nottingham (qv); d. 20 Mar 1793. Buried North Transept, Westminster Abbey (monument), having expressed a desire in his will to be buried there on account of “the love I bear to the place of my early education”. DNB.
MURRAY, WILLIAM POWELL, seventh son of Charles Murray, Petworth, Sussex, and Elizabeth, dau. of Riviere Knight; b. 23 Mar 1817; adm. 30 Jun 1829 (Stikeman's); KS 1831; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1835, adm. pens. 27 Jun 1835, scholar 1836; BA 1839; MA 1842; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 8 Nov 1836, called to bar 23 Nov 1841; practised at Chancery bar; a Registrar, Court of Bankruptcy, in Manchester 26 Mar 1863 and in London from 1863; m. 27 Jul 1854 Georgina Charlotte Daysh, only dau. of Cdr. Hon. Arthur Richard Turnour, Royal Navy; d. 20 Aug 1885.
MURRAY, WILLIAM DAVID, 3RD EARL OF MANSFIELD (cr. 1776) and 4TH EARL OF MANSFIELD (cr. 1792), eldest son of David William Murray, 3rd Earl of Mansfield (qv); b. 21 Feb 1806; styled Viscount Stormont 1806-40; adm. 19 Sep 1816 (Packharness'); left Christmas 1822; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 14 Apr 1823; MP (Cons) Aldborough 1830-1 New Woodstock 1831-2 Norwich 1832-7 Perthshire 1837 – 18 Feb 1840; a Lord Commissioner of the Treasury 1834-5; succ. father as 4th Earl of Mansfield (cr. 1792) 18 Feb 1840, and grandmother as 3rd Earl of Mansfield (cr. 1776) 11 Jul 1843; took Conservative whip, House of Lords; Lord High Commissioner to General Assembly, Church of Scotland 1852, 1858-9; Lord Lieut., Clackmannanshire, from 1852; KT 13 Jun 1843; “father” of the House of Lords; m. 8 Apr 1829 Louisa, dau. of Cuthbert Ellison MP, Hepburn Hall, co. Durham; d. 2 Aug 1898.
Murray, Thomas Aird Burnley, son of Thomas Aird Murray, consult. civil engineer, of Toronto, and Alice, d. of Frank Hancock of Ripon, Yorks; b. 16 Mar. 1912; adm. Jan. 1926 (R); left Dec. 1929; City & Guilds Coll., BSc 1933; AMICE 1935; AuxAF 1938 (PO 616 Sqdn); test pilot Min. of Supply 1941-6 (Flt Lieut. RAF), AFC AEA; farming 1949-62; m. 1935 Anne, d. of F. W. Buckham of Alton, Hants; d. 4 June 1984.
MURRAY, SAMUEL REGINALD GLANVILLE, son of Thomas Hamilton Murray MD, Rajputana, India, and Caroline Emma, dau. of Thomas Glanville MD, Melbourne, Australia; b. 24 Jan 1869; adm. 31 May 1883 (H); left Dec 1884; King’s Coll. London; Hatfield Hall, Durham; BA 1890; MA 1901; ordained 1892; Curate, Bromsgrove, Worcs. , 1892-4, Ewell, Surrey 1894-8; Vicar of Davidstowe, Cornwall 1898-1901; Assistant Chaplain, Wormwood Scrubs Prison 1901-2; Chaplain, Warwick Prison 1902-6, Lewes Prison 1906-9, Holloway Prison 1909-.
Murray, Ronald James, son of Surgeon Lieut.-Col. John Murray, M.D., of Kensington, by Mary, daughter of William Smithers, of Canada; b. July 31, 1879; adm. Sept. 28, 1893 (H); left April 1897; an artist in Paris; served in Great War I; 2nd Lieut. 13th Batt. Middlesex Regt. Sept. 26, 1917; m. Feb. 7, 1923, Blanche, daughter of Jules Xavier Lemercier, of Rouen, France.
MURRAY, ROBERT WILLIAM FELTON LATHROP, supposed son of Robert Lathrop, West Felton, Shropshire, and Ann Williams, but understood to be a natural son of George III; bapt. St. Marylebone parish church 12 Mar 1780; adm. 13 Mar 1786 (as Robert Lathrop); left 1793; assumed additional surname of Murray; served with Royal Manx Fencibles 1797; assumed surname of Brown-Clarke 31 Mar 1802, but change of name cancelled by royal command 13 Apr 1802; banker, Portland Place, London Jun 1802; entered Army; Lieut., unattached 4 Feb 1807; 1st Foot 12 Feb 1807; Capt., 15 Mar 1810; Royal Waggon Train 15 Aug 1811; served in Peninsular War; convicted of bigamy Jan 1815 and sentenced to transportation (Parliamentary Debates xx, 317, 464, 653); arrived at Sydney, New South Wales 1816; living in Hobart, Tasmania, by 1821; editor, Hobart Town Gazette 8 Jul 1825, Colonial Times 19 Aug 1825 – 4 Aug 1826, Murray’s Anglo-Australian Review (later Tasmanian and Anglo-Australian Review) 6 Feb 1829 – 26 Jun 1845; returned to England Nov 1847, settling at West Felton Hall, near Shrewsbury; m. 1st, 1797 Alicia Marshall, Londonderry, Ireland; m. 2nd (bigamously) 1801 Katherine, only child of Thomas Clarke, Hailsham, Sussex, and sister of Richard Brown Clarke (qv); m. 3rd, 1806 Lydia, widow of William Marriott, EICS Madras, and dau. of Rev. John Mogridge, Vicar of Pershore, Worcs.; m. 4th, 1 Dec 1827 Eleanor, dau. of Thomas Dixon, Ralph’s Bay, Tasmania; d. 2 Nov 1850.