Alexander Murray (ca. 1715 – 1762) was a British army officer who served in

Father Le Loutre's War Father Le Loutre's War (1749–1755), also known as the Indian War, the Mi'kmaq War and the Anglo-Mi'kmaq War, took place between King George's War and the French and Indian War in Acadia and Nova Scotia. On one side of the conflict, the Briti ...

and the

French and Indian War The French and Indian War (1754–1763) was a theater of the Seven Years' War, which pitted the North American colonies of the British Empire against those of the French, each side being supported by various Native American tribes. At the ...

Nova Scotia Nova Scotia ( ; ; ) is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada. It is one of the three Maritime provinces and one of the four Atlantic provinces. Nova Scotia is Latin for "New Scotland". Most of the population are native Eng ...

. He was the cousin of James Murray.Johnston, G. Harvey, ''The Heraldry of the Murrays'', W. & A. K. Johnston Ltd. Edinburgh and London, 1910 - in which ‘Pedigree VII, The Murrays of Falahill’ shows Alexander as 5th cousin 2R of Alexander (8th Lord Elibank), eldest brother of James.

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Portrait of Murray as a child

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* * "The Letters of Colonel Alexander Murray 1742–1759". Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment: regimental annual 1938: Volumes 1921–1926; pp. 181–220. * "Letters of Colonel Alexander Murray," Sherwood Foresters Regimental Annual, 1926 (London, 1927), 181–220; 1927 (London, 1928), 240–68. {{DEFAULTSORT:Murray, Alexander Military history of Acadia Military history of Nova Scotia Military history of Canada 1710s births 1762 deaths British Army generals British Army personnel of the War of the Austrian Succession British Army personnel of the Jacobite rising of 1745 British Army personnel of the Seven Years' War Persons of National Historic Significance (Canada)

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