MURRAY, David (1748-94), of Hattonknowe, Peebles and South Warnborough, Hants.

Although Murray’s interests lay almost wholly in England, he had an electoral qualification in Peeblesshire, where in 1784 he succeeded his brother Alexander. He owed his election to the interest of the Duke of Queensberry and Lord Chief Baron James Montgomery, but the arrangement was for one Parliament only, until Montgomery’s eldest son was available.Adam. Pol. State of Scotland, 250, 254. In Parliament he supported the Pitt Administration, voting with them on the Regency, 16 Dec. 1788, though his patron the Duke of Queensberry took the opposite view.

He died 7 May 1794.