Sir John Macgregor Murray, 1st Baronet
Scottish army officer and baronet
Lieutenant-Colonel Sir John Macgregor Murray, 1st Baronet (10 April 1745 – 29 June 1822), born John Murray, was a Scottish army officer.
Clan Gregor
John Murray was born on 10 April 1745, the eldest son of the Major Evan Murray (1710–1778), an officer in the 88th Foot, by his wife Janet, daughter of John Macdonald of Balgony. Murray was part of Clan Gregor (or Macgregor), but had been forced to assume the surname Murray as a result of the persecution of the clan and the outlawing of the name, which began in the 17th century. Murray's father Evan and Evan's elder brothers Robert and Duncan fought against the government in the Jacobite rising of 1745; their father John Og or Oig was regarded as the chief representative of the family. Being the eldest son, Robert succeeded him but died in 1758 (as did his only son), leaving Duncan as his heir. On Duncan's death in 1787, John Murray (being the eldest surviving son of the next brother) became the family's representative and chief of the clan. Murray was created a baronet on 3 July 1795; in 1822, he adopted the surname Macgregor before that of Murray.
Military service
Murray became a cadet in the East India Company's army in 1770 and in 1771 he was commissioned as an Ensign in the 2nd Bengal European Regiment and appointed Deputy Judge Advocate to the 2nd Brigade. In 1774, he was appointed military secretary and aide-de-camp to the commander-in-chief in India (Colonel Alexander Champion), served under Champion in the First Rohilla War and was present at St George's Battle (23 April 1774). In 1776, he was promoted to Lieutenant and was appointed military secretary to the Board of Ordnance in Calcutta, serving until 1780.
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