Murray was the son of David Murray, a merchant, and Frances Macclesfield. He was the nephew of
Sir Alexander Murray, 3rd Baronet, and succeeded to his uncle's
baronetcy on 18 May 1743. He was the captain of a regiment of
hussars and was active in the
Jacobite rising of 1745 in the army of
Charles Edward Stuart. He was taken prisoner,
attainted of his lands and title and sentenced to death at
York in 1746, but was pardoned on the condition that he left Scotland for life. Murray left the British Isles to live in exile with Charles Edward Stuart in France, where he was granted a pension of 1,000
livres by
Louis XV. He was in Paris with the Prince in 1749. His estates at
Stobo,
Stanhope and
Broughton in
Peeblesshire were sold in 1767. He died in Leghorn in 1769. ==References==