MURRAY, William (c.1600-1655), of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Westminster and Ham, Surr.

Family and Education

b. c. 1600, Murray’s date of birth is not known, but he was reputedly about the same age as Charles I: D. Mathew, Scot. under Chas. I, 233. o. s. of William Murray, minister of Dysart, Fife and Margaret, da. of David Murray of Lochmiln. Scots Peerage ed. J.B. Paul, iii. 398-9. educ. page, Household of Prince Charles, from c.1603. G. Burnet, Hist. of his own Time, 447; Oxford DNB sub Thomas Murray. m. by 19 Dec. 1625, Katherine, da. of Col. Norman Bruce of Clackmannan, 4da. suc. fa. 1616; CSP Dom. 1625-6, p. 555; Scots Peerage, iii. 398, 402. cr. earl of Dysart and Lord Huntingtower, 3 Aug. 1643; CP. d. Dec. 1655. Pritchard, 12. sig. W[illiam] Murray.

Offices Held

Groom of Bedchamber, Household of Prince Charles by 1624–5, HLRO, O.A. 21 Jas.I, c. 53; LC2/6. king’s Household 1625-at least 1643. CSP Dom. 1625–6, p. 23; Docquets of Letters Patent 1642–6 ed. W.H. Black, 374.

Constable, Huntingtower, Perths. 1631–45; Tollemache mss 502, 505. j.p. Surr. 1635 – at least40, commr. array 1642. C231/5, p. 183; C66/2859; Northants. RO, FH 133.

Parlimentarian

MURRAY, William (c.1600-1655), of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Westminster and Ham, Surr.

Main residences: St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Westminster; Ham, Surr.

Author

P.M.H.

Volume

Commons 1604-1629

Web Title

MURRAY, William (c.1600-1655)

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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