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[[File:AlexanderMurryMacgregor-ca15 byHenryRaeburn-1795 QldArtGall 20171112.jpg|thumb|Murray Macgregor (c 1795),<ref name=book>{{cite book|title=Queensland Art Gallery Selected Works|date=1982|pages=23|publisher = Queensland Art Gallery|location=South Brisbane|isbn=0724209565|editor=Mellish, Raoul}}</ref> by Sir [[Henry Raeburn]]]]
[[Major-general (United Kingdom)|Major-General]] '''Alexander Murray Macgregor''' (27 November 1778 – 20 August 1827), born '''Alexander Murray''', was a Scottish army officer in the [[East India Company|British East India Company]].

== Life ==

=== Clan Gregor ===
Alexander Murray was born on 27 November 1778, the second but only surviving son of [[Colonel]] Alexander Murray (1746–1822) of [[Napier Ruskie]], an officer in the [[Fencibles|Royal Clan Alpin Fencibles]], and his first wife Frances, daughter of [[Major]] Edmund Pascall.<ref name=":1">Foster, p. 401.</ref>{{refn|group="nb"|The elder son was Evan Edward Hastings Pascal (sometimes spelt Pascall or Paschall) Murray; a daughter, Frances Janetta, also died young.<ref>Debrett, p. 962.</ref>}} Murray was part of [[Clan Gregor]] (or Macgregor), but his forebears had been forced to assume the surname Murray as a result of the persecution of the clan and the outlawing of their name from the 17th century onward.<ref name=":3">Boag, p. 128.</ref> Murray's father was a younger son of Evan Murray, who had fought with his own elder brothers Robert and Duncan against the government in the [[Jacobite rising of 1745]]; in 1787, Evan's eldest son (and the younger Alexander Murray's uncle) [[Sir John Macgregor Murray, 1st Baronet|John]] succeeded Duncan as chief of the clan and was created a [[baronet]] in 1795.<ref name=":1" /><ref>Macgregor, pp. 266–267, 388, 392–394, 402.</ref><ref name=":2">Cokayne, p. 303.</ref>

=== Military career ===
A number of Macgregor's relatives were officers in the British East India Company; his father had served in it as an officer,{{refn|group="nb"|The elder Alexander served in Keith's Highlanders in Germany in 1762 and was then an Ensign in the 77th Regiment and then the 50th Foot until 1772. He joined the East India Company Army in 1772 as an Ensign, served in the [[Siege of Tanjore]] in 1773 and in the [[First Rohilla War]] (in [[St George's Battle]], 1774). He was promoted to Lieutenant in 1778, served in the campaign against the Rajah of Benares in 1781 and was promoted to Brevet Captain in 1782, Captain in 1784, Local Major in 1782, Local Lieutenant-Colonel in 1783 and Local Colonel in 1785; he was Commander in Chief at [[British Bencoolen]] from 1782 to 1785 and, after eight years of furlough, resigned in 1793. He commanded the Royal Clan Alpine Fencibles from 1798.<ref>Hodson, pp. 356–357.</ref>}} as had his paternal uncles the baronet Sir John (who was Military Auditor General)<ref name=":0">Hodson, p. 141.</ref> and Peter Macgregor (an adjutant-general),<ref name=":1" /> and his cousins [[Sir Evan John Macgregor, 2nd Baronet]],<ref name=":2" /> General [[John Alexander Paul Macgregor]] and General Sir [[Duncan Macgregor (army officer)|Duncan Macgregor]].<ref>Macgregor, p. 394; for his full rank, see Atholl, p. 511.</ref>

The younger Alexander Murray was commissioned as a [[Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)|captain]] in the [[90th Regiment of Foot (Perthshire Volunteers)|90th Perthshire Volunteers]] in 1796 and served in the regiment until 1800, when he moved to the Royal Clan Alpin Fencibles, of which his father was Colonel. He was given the rank of [[major]]. After the Fencibles disbanded two years later, he transferred to the [[67th Regiment of Foot|67th Regiment]] and then in 1808 became [[Lieutenant colonel (United Kingdom)|lieutenant-colonel]] of the 1st Battalion of the [[Royal Warwickshire Regiment|6th Regiment]]. He was with it when it carried out the [[Walcheren Campaign|Walcheren Expedition]] in 1809. In 1812, he became lieutenant-colonel in the [[4th Ceylon Regiment]] and was promoted to the rank of colonel in the Army in 1814. He was placed on the [[half-pay]] list two years later and promoted to [[Major-general (United Kingdom)|major-general]] in 1825.<ref name=":3" />

== Family and later life ==
In 1810 Murray married Lady Charlotte Anne Sinclair, daughter of [[James Sinclair, 12th Earl of Caithness]].<ref name=":1" /> They had seven children:

* Captain Alexander Nugent Murray Macgregor (died 1844), an officer in the Bengal Army, who married Eleanor, daughter of one Captain Hopper.<ref name=":1" />
* Caithness Evan Edmund Murray Macgregor (died 1834).<ref name=":1" />
* Colonel John Murray Macgregor (1819–1891), who married Mary Barbara, daughter of John Featherstone of Blackhall and Newbus Grange; his daughter Charlotte married Major-General John Elpinstone (died 1877).<ref name=":1" /><ref>[https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001384/18911222/003/0001 "Deaths"], ''[[Dublin Daily Express]]'', Tuesday 22 December 1891, p. 1.</ref>
* Major-General [[Evan Murray Macgregor]] (1822–1885)<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":5">[http://indiafamily.bl.uk/ui/FullDisplay.aspx?RecordId=014-000232329 "Evan Murray"], ''Indian Office Family History'' (British Library). Retrieved 10 April 2020.</ref><ref name=":4">[https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000183/18850429/002/0001 "Deaths"], ''[[London Evening Standard]]'', 29 April 1885, p. 1.</ref> served in the cavalry in the East India Company's Army<ref name=":5" /> and the [[British Indian Army]] and was promoted to Lieutenant-Colonel in 1866,<ref>''[https://www.thegazette.co.uk/Edinburgh/issue/7665/page/940 The Edinburgh Gazette]'', 7 August 1866 Iissue 7665), p. 940.</ref> [[Brevet (military)|Brevet]] Colonel in 1871<ref>[https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/23768/page/3645 ''The London Gazette''], 18 August 1871 (issue 23768), p. 3645.</ref> and on retirement was granted the [[honorary rank]] of Major-General in 1875.<ref>''[https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/24257/page/4955 The London Gazette]'', 22 October 1875 (issue 24257), p. 4954.</ref> He married Sophie Mary Ann (died 1885), daughter of Charles Frederick Collier, inspector-general in the Indian Army, and had six children; he retired to Hobart, Tasmania, where he and his wife died.<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":4" />
* Jane Helen Campbell Murray Macgregor (died 1860), who married Colonel Alex Boyd Kerr, an officer in the Madras Rifles.<ref name=":1" />
* Frances Grace Hay Murray Macgregor, who married Major-General [[Edward Every Miller]] (died 1877) and whose eldest daughter Charlotte (died 1880) married Lieutenant-General Sir [[Frederick Haines|Frederick Paul Haines]], the Commander-in-Chief, India.<ref name=":1" />
* Charlotte Murray Macgregor (died 1850), who had married James Alexander Cruikshank of Langley Park (died 1849), and died childless.<ref name=":1" />

Murray had added the surname Macgregor to Murray in 1822.<ref name=":3" /> He died on 20 August 1827. His widow died on 7 April 1854.<ref name=":1" />

== References ==
=== Notes ===
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=== Citations ===
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=== Bibliography ===

* [[Katharine Stewart-Murray, Duchess of Atholl|Atholl, Duchess of]], "General Sir Duncan MacGregor, K.C.B.", in [[Katharine Stewart-Murray, Duchess of Atholl]] (ed.), ''A Military History of Perthshire, 1660–1902'', vol. 1 (Perth: R. A. & J. Hay, 1908).
* Boag, W. G. F., [https://www.jstor.org/stable/44224186 "Major General Alexander Murray MacGregor"], ''[[Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research]]'', vol. 57, no. 231 (1979), pp. 127–128.
* [[George Edward Cokayne|Cokayne, G. E.]], ''[[iarchive:cu31924092524416/page/n325/mode/2up|The Complete Baronetage]]'', vol. 6 (Exeter: W. Pollard & Co., 1900).
* Debrett, John, ''[https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=FPFRAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA962 The Baronetage of England]'', 4th ed. (London: F.C. and J. Rivington and others, 1819).
* Foster, Joseph, ''[https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=uFE4AQAAMAAJ The Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage of the British Empire for 1881]'' (Westminster: Nichols and Sons, 1881).
* Hodson, V. C. P., ''List of the Officers of the Bengal Army: 1758–1834'' (London: Constable, 1946).
* MacGregor, Amelia Georgiana Murray, ''[[iarchive:historyofclangre02macg|History of Clan Gregor]]'', vol. 2 (Edinburgh: William Brown, 1901).

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