Alexander Murray (British Army officer, died 1762)

Alexander Murray (c. 1715 – 1762) was a British Army officer who served in Father Le Loutre's War and the French and Indian War in Nova Scotia. He was the cousin of James Murray.Johnston, G. Harvey, The Heraldry of the Murrays, W. & A. K. Johnston Ltd. Edinburgh and London, 1910 - in which ‘Pedigree VII, The Murrays of Falahill’ shows Alexander as 5th cousin 2R of Alexander (8th Lord Elibank), eldest brother of James.

See also Military history of Nova Scotia

Links Portrait of Murray as a child

References

"The Letters of Colonel Alexander Murray 1742–1759". Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment: regimental annual 1938: Volumes 1921–1926; pp. 181–220. "Letters of Colonel Alexander Murray," Sherwood Foresters Regimental Annual, 1926 (London, 1927), 181–220; 1927 (London, 1928), 240–68.