John Murray Graham

John Murray Graham (1809–1881) was a Scottish historian.

Life

He was eldest son of Andrew Murray (1782–1847) of Murrayshall, Perthshire, who served as sheriff of Aberdeenshire, and his wife Janet, daughter of Oliver Thomson of Leckiebank. He was born in Aberdeenshire 15 October 1809, and educated at Edinburgh University, where he graduated M.A. in 1828. He became an advocate in 1831.[1]

Murray Graham was a relation of Thomas Graham, 1st Baron Lynedoch (died 1843), to a part of whose estates he succeeded in 1859 on the death of his heir Robert Graham of Balgowan, and whose surname he adopted. He died 18 January 1881, having married on 22 November 1853 Robina, daughter of Thomas Hamilton.[1] His heir was his nephew Henry Stewart Murray-Graham.[2][3]

Works

Graham wrote:[1]

Notes

  1. 1 2 3  Stephen, Leslie; Lee, Sidney, eds. (1890). "Graham, John Murray". Dictionary of National Biography 22. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
  2. Murphy, G. Martin. "Graham, John Murray". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/11214. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  3. Sir Bernard Burke (1863). A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain and Ireland. Harrison. p. 1059.

Attribution

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Stephen, Leslie; Lee, Sidney, eds. (1890). "Graham, John Murray". Dictionary of National Biography 22. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 

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