Lieutenant-General Thomas Murray (June 1698 – 21 November 1764) was a British Army officer. He was the seventh son of

Charles Murray, 1st Earl of Dunmore Charles Murray, 1st Earl of Dunmore (1661–1710) was a British peer, previously Lord Charles Murray. The second son of John Murray, 1st Marquess of Atholl, he rose to become a general in the British Army and was created Earl of Dunmore, Lord M ...

; his elder brothers included General

John Murray, 2nd Earl of Dunmore John Murray, 2nd Earl of Dunmore (31 October 1685 – 18 April 1752), also Viscount of Fincastle and Lord Murray of Blair, Moulin and Tullimet, was a Scottish peer and British Army general. The second son of Charles Murray, 1st Earl of Dunm ...

, Brigadier-General Robert Murray, and

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. In 1713 he was a

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to Queen Anne. Murray joined the Army in 1718, and after service with the

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he was made colonel of the

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on 23 June 1743, a post he would hold until his death. In 1745 he was present at the

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. On 1 April 1754 he was promoted to major-general, and on 19 January 1758 to lieutenant-general. General Murray lived at Dorney House near

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, and at Princes Street,

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, London. His wife Elizabeth (who predeceased him) was the sister of Lieutenant-General Robert Armiger; by her he had a daughter Frances Maria, who was her father's heiress.

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Richard Cannon Richard Cannon (1779–1865) was a compiler of regimental records for the British Army. Career On 1 January 1802 Cannon was appointed to a clerkship at the Horse Guards, and attained the grade of first-clerk in 1803. Under a Horse Guards order ...

''Historical Record of the Forty-Sixth, or South Devonshire Regiment of Foot''
(1851) p. 68. * Keith W. Murray, "Murray, Earl of Dunmore" i
''The Scots Peerage'', volume III
(1906) p. 387-388. 1698 births 1764 deaths Younger sons of earls British Army lieutenant generals Scots Guards officers 46th Regiment of Foot officers British Army personnel of the Jacobite rising of 1745 {{British-Army-bio-stub