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MURRAY, SIR JOHN, BART., elder son of Sir Robert Murray, Bart., Receiver-Gen. of Customs (S), and his second wife Susan, dau. of John Renton, Lanerton, Forfarshire; b.; adm. 4 Nov 1778; Ensign, 3rd Foot Guards 24 Oct 1788; Lieut. and Capt., 25 Apr 1793; Brevet Maj., 30 Apr 1794; Lieut. -Col., 84th Foot 31 May 1794; Col. in the Army 1 Jan 1800; Major-Gen., 30 Oct 1805; Col., Royal Regt. of Malta 23 Feb 1808; Col., 3rd West India Regt., 27 May 1809; Lieut. -Gen., 1 Jan 1812; Col., 56th Foot, from 31 Mar 1818; Gen., 27 May 1825; served in Flanders 1793-4; commanded 84th Foot at capture of Cape of Good Hope 1796; in command, Red Sea 1798-1800; Quartermaster-Gen. of Indian Army employed in Egypt under Sir David Baird 1801; commanded British forces in Mahratta War 1803-4; served under Sir John Moore in Portugal 1808-9; appointed to a command in army in Sicily under Lord William Bentinck (qv) 1812; court-martialled Jan 1815 for sacrificing his guns and stores at Tarragona in Jun 1813, and for neglecting Wellington’s instructions, but was acquitted of the charges and ordered to be admonished for an “error in judgement”; succeeded half-brother as 8th baronet 26 Apr 1811; MP Wootton Bassett 1807 – Apr 1811, Weymouth and Melcombe Regis 11 May 1811-8; GCH 1817; m. 25 Aug 1807 Hon. Anne Elizabeth Cholmley Phipps, only dau. of Constantine Phipps, 2nd Baron Mulgrave (I) and 1st Baron Mulgrave (GB), PC; d. at Frankfurt am Main, Germany 15 Oct 1827.
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International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition
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Users should note that the information recorded here that is not to be found in the first two volumes of the Record of Old Westminsters and its first Supplement has been assembled from various published and manuscript sources by Hugh Edmund Pagan MA FSA, and all new resulting text is his copyright, © 2014.
The Record of Old Westminsters: A biographical list of all those who are known to have been educated at Westminster School from the earliest times to 1927, Volumes 1 & 2, compiled by G. F. Russell Barker and Alan H. Stenning, London, 1928.