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MURE, PHILIP WILLIAM, brother of Alexander James Mure (qv); b. 19 Jan 1802; adm. Midsummer 1815; KS 1815; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1819, but went to Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 21 May 1819; BA 1823; MA 1825; a malt distiller at Bromley-by-Bow, Middlesex; m. 5 Feb 1833 Louisa, dau. of Sir Thomas Andrew Lumisden Strange (qv); d. 28 Jun 1867.

MURE, JAMES, son of William Mure (qv); b. 25 Oct 1835; adm. 25 Sep 1847 (Rigaud's); Midshipman, Royal Navy Oct 1849 – May 1852; Glasgow Univ., matr. 1852; adm. advocate 6 Jun 1857; HBM Consul for the Balearic Islands (resident at Palma, Majorca), from 8 Jun 1877; m. 8 Feb 1862 Mary Elizabeth, divorced wife of Robert Vans Agnew MP, Barnbarroch, Wigtownshire, and dau. of Sir David Hunter-Blair, Bart.; d. at Palma 8 May 1882.

MURE, JAMES, brother of Alexander James Mure (qv); b. 31 Jul 1796; adm. Mich. 1807; KS 1809; Capt. of the School 1813; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1814, matr. 23 May 1814, Westminster Student; 1st cl. Classics 1817; BA 1817; MA 1820; adm. Inner Temple, called to bar 2 Jul 1824; gave evidence before the public Schools Commission 23 Jun 1862 (Parliamentary Papers 1864, xxi, 424-8); Busby Trustee 14 May 1859; President, Elizabethan Club, from 1867; author of a number of epilogues and epigrams; joint editor with Henry Bull (qv) and Charles Brodrick Scott of Lusus Alteri Westmonasterienses i-ii, 1863-7; m. 12 Nov 1834 Harriet, dau. of Brice Pearse, Munkham, Essex; m. 2nd, c. 1842 Emily, dau. of Richard Heatley, Woodford, Essex; d. 20 Jul 1876.

MURE, ERNEST WILLIAM, son of James Mure (adm. 1807, qv), and his second wife; b. 18 Oct 1848; adm. 19 Jun 1862 (James'); Min. Can. 1863; left Christmas 1864; clerk, Bank of England (but not in employment by time of 1881 Census); d. 3 Apr 1930.

MURE, DAVID, LORD MURE, brother of William Mure (qv); b. 21 Nov 1810; adm. 28 Feb 1825 (Stelfox's); Edinburgh Univ.; adm. advocate 23 Dec 1831; Advocate Depute 1843-6; Sheriff of Perthshire 1853-8; MP (Cons) Buteshire 1859- Jan 1865; Solicitor-Gen. for Scotland 12 Jul 1858 – Apr 1859, Lord Advocate 15 Apr – Jun 1859; an Ordinary Lord of Session, with judicial title of Lord Mure, 11 Jan 1865- Oct 1889; a Commissioner of Justiciary 1 Apr 1874-89; DL Midlothian, Buteshire; m. 20 Jul 1841 Helen, eldest dau. of John Tod, Kirkhill, Midlothian, Writer to the Signet; d. 11 Apr 1891.

MURE, CHARLES REGINALD, son of William Mure (qv); b. 7 May 1833; adm. 25 Sep 1847 (Rigaud's); Ensign, 43rd Foot 16 Aug 1850; Lieut., 29 Jul 1853; Capt., 7th Foot 8 Jan 1856; half-pay 10 Nov 1856; 43rd Foot 10 Apr 1857; served in Kaffir War 1851-3; Adc to Maj. -Gen. Frederick Markham (qv) in Crimean War 1855; killed in action at Tauranga, New Zealand 29 Apr 1864.

MURE, ARTHUR HENRY, son of James Mure (adm. 1807, qv), and his second wife; b. 22 Jul 1847; adm. 30 May 1861 (James'); QS 1862; left May 1866; a brewer at Hampstead, firm Mure, Warner, & Co.; m. 4 Feb 1875 Georgina Frederica, dau. of Capt. George Frederick Dawson, Royal Engineers; d. 12 Feb 1931.

MURE, ALEXANDER JAMES, eldest son of James Mure, Great George Street, Westminster, and Frederica Sophia, dau. of Christopher Metcalfe, Hawsted, Suffolk; b. 23 Nov 1793; adm.; KS 1806; Capt. of the School 1810; elected head to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1811, but went to Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 28 May 1811; BA 1814; BCL 1820; Fellow of All Souls Coll., Oxford 1816; m. 20 Feb 1821 Elizabeth, widow of William Markham (adm. 1767, qv), and fifth dau. of Charles Oldfield Bowles, North Aston, Oxfordshire; d. at Interlaken, Switzerland 27 Jul 1828.

MURDOCK, JOHN; b.; adm. 11 Jan 1808; left 1808.

MURDOCH, HENRY EDMUND WAY, third son of Sir Thomas William Clinton Murdoch KCMG, Chairman, Colonial Land and Emigration Commissioners, and Isabella Anne, second dau. of Robert Lukin, War Office, London; b. 16 Sep 1843; adm. 27 Jan 1857 (James'); Min. Can. 1858; living successively in New Zealand, Australia and South Africa; a diamond digger in the Transvaal; m. 16 Aug 1865 Louisa, youngest surviving dau. of D. G. Rose, Harrow on the Hill, Middlesex; d. at Plaatdrift on the Vaal river, South Africa 11 Jun 1917.