Murray, Sir John, Baronet

Murray, Sir John, Baronet

▪ Scottish Jacobite
born 1718
died December 6, 1777, Cheshunt, Hertfordshire, England

      Scottish Jacobite, secretary to Prince Charles Edward (the Young Pretender) (Charles Edward, the Young Pretender) during the rebellion of 1745–46. He damaged the rebels' cause by his nervous collapse in March 1746 and later by his incrimination of other leading supporters of the Stuart claim to the British throne.

      Murray was educated at the universities of Edinburgh and Leiden and became involved with the Jacobites in 1738. He returned to Scotland as an official Jacobite agent in 1741, but his work there was complicated by the overly optimistic reports that led to the abortive French invasion of Scotland in February 1744. Charles Edward nevertheless pressed on with his own plans, and Murray served him efficiently during the rebellion until his health broke down in March 1746, to the detriment of the rebels' commissariat. Subsequently Murray was accused, possibly unjustly, of fomenting trouble between Charles Edward and Lord George Murray during the campaign.

      Brought to trial, he turned king's evidence, but most of the evidence that he gave the crown was aimed at those who, in his judgment, had failed the Jacobite cause. Lord Lovat, although incriminated by Murray, was not condemned and executed on his evidence alone. Murray was pardoned in 1748, but his later life was miserable. Shunned as a traitor, even by his wife, he became deranged. On the death of his uncle in 1770, Murray inherited the baronetcy, which, on his own death seven years later, passed to his eldest son, David.

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