Sir David Murray, 4th Baronet (died 1769) was a Scottish Jacobite soldier. Murray was the son of David Murray, a merchant, and Frances Macclesfield. He was the nephew of

Sir Alexander Murray, 3rd Baronet Sir Alexander Murray, 3rd Baronet (after 1684 – 18 May 1743) was a Scottish baronet and politician. He was a son of Sir David Murray (1659 - 1729) and his first wife, Anne Bruce. Alexander Murray was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Peebles ...

, and succeeded to his uncle's

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on 18 May 1743. He was the captain of a regiment of

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and was active in the

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in the army of

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. He was taken prisoner,

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of his lands and title and sentenced to death at

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in 1746, but was pardoned on the condition that he left Scotland for life. Murray left the British Isles to live in exile with Charles Edward Stuart in France, where he was granted a pension of 1,000

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. He was in Paris with the Prince in 1749. His estates at Stobo, Stanhope and Broughton in

Peeblesshire Peeblesshire ( gd, Siorrachd nam Pùballan), the County of Peebles or Tweeddale is a historic county of Scotland. Its county town is Peebles, and it borders Midlothian to the north, Selkirkshire to the east, Dumfriesshire to the south, and Lan ...

were sold in 1767. He died in France in 1769.Cokayne, George E, ''Complete baronetage'' (1903), Vol. III, p.343.

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