This officer was made lieutenant, April 22, 1813; commander, Oct. 2, 1815; and posted, while acting as captain of the Meander frigate, Oct. 17, 1816. He married, Aug. 10, 1820, Margaret, third daughter of the late Hon. Sir John Wilson, one of the Judges of H.M. Court of Common Pleas, and daughter-in-law of Rear-Admiral Griffith, now Colpoys, whose flag-ship, the Newcastle 60, he then commanded on the Halifax station. He was put out of commission January 16, 1822, since which period he has not been employed.
Agent.– John Chippendale, Esq.
JAMES ARTHUR MURRAY, Esq.
[Post-Captain of 1816.]
Son of the late Right Hon. Lord William Murray, and nephew to the present Duke of Athol. Was made lieutenant, Sept. 25, 1809; and subsequently appointed to the Unicorn 32, the surgeon of which frigate was sentenced, by a court-martial, to imprisonment in the Marshalsea, for assaulting him at the officers’ mess table. He afterwards joined the America 74, Captain Josias Rowley; and was promoted to the rank of commander, Dec. 6, 1813. His subsequent appointments were. May 14, 1816, to the Griffin brig; Nov. 16 following, as post-captain, to the Spey, of 20 guns, on the St. Helena station; and, Aug. 14, 1824, to the Athol 28, in which ship he returned home, after a three years’ service on the coast of Africa, in the East Indies, and in the Persian Gulph, Sept. 30, 1827.
In March 1818, Captain Murray was tried by a court-martial, at the instance of Rear-Admiral Plampin, for neglecting to supply the island of Ascension, and H.M. late sloop Julia[1], with necessary stores. The charges against him were not proved, and he was consequently acquitted. He married, in Dec. 1821, Harriett, youngest daughter of the late William Coupland, of St. Mary’s, Shrewsbury, Esq.
Agent.– J. P. Muspratt, Esq.
