Vice Admiral George Murray (22 August 1741 – 17 October 1797) was a

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officer and politician. He was the third son of the Jacobite general Lord George Murray.

Naval career

Murray joined the

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HMS Ferret. Promoted

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he commanded HMS ''Renown'', HMS ''Adventure'', HMS ''Levant'' and HMS ''Cleopatra''. He commanded the ''Cleopatra'' at the Battle of Dogger Bank in 1781. From 1782 he commanded HMS ''Irresistible''. He was elected

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for Perth burghs in 1790 but gave up his seat in 1796. Resuming his naval career he commanded HMS ''Defence'' from 1790. He was appointed Commander-in-Chief at

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in 1792 and went on to command HMS ''Duke'' and then HMS ''Glory''. He was made

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in 1794, establishing a permanent Royal Naval base at St. George's Town, at the East End of

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), with Admiralty House at Rose Hill, the ships of the squadron reaching ''Murray's Anchorage'' (named for him) in the lagoon enclosed by Bermuda's barrier reach via the newly discovered Hurd's Channel, and with various sites around the town acquired by the navy, including Convict Bay (below ''Barrack Hill'' at

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, and ''Naval Tanks'' (acquisition of land at Bermuda's West End also began in the 1790s for the longer term goal of the navy was the construction of the Royal Naval Dockyard with which Bermuda was to be elevated to an

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). He almost completely cleared North American waters of French men-of-war and privateers. He returned to England in 1796 and died the following year.

Family

In 1784 he married Hon. Wilhelmina King, daughter of

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; they had no children.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Murray, George 1741 births 1797 deaths Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for Scottish constituencies British MPs 1790–1796 Royal Navy vice admirals

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