Freeman Murray
{{Short description|British Army general}}
{{for|the American journalist and civil rights activist|Freeman H. M. Murray}}
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|name=Freeman Murray
|birth_date=16 November 1804London, England, Church of England Births and Baptisms, 1813–1917
|death_date=14 April 1885 (aged 80)
|birth_place=Valenciennes, FranceUK, Officer Service Records, 1764–1932
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|image=General Freeman Murray.jpg
|caption=Freeman Murray
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|rank=General
|branch={{army|United Kingdom}}
|commands=Chatham District
Eastern District
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General Freeman Murray CB (16 November 1804 – 14 April 1885) was a British Army officer who became General Officer Commanding Eastern District.{{cite news |title= Obituary |work=The Times |date= 18 April 1885|page= 10 }}
Murray was born in France, the son of General John Murray and his second wife, Canadian Maria Pascoe.
Military career
Murray was commissioned as an ensign in the 64th Regiment of Foot on 5 March 1825.{{London Gazette|issue=18114|page=370|date=24 February 1825}} After commanding the 72nd Regiment of Foot, he served as Governor of Bermuda from 1854 to 1859 and again from 1860 to 1861.{{cite web|url=http://www.tcd.gov.bm/portal/server.pt?open=512&objID=898&&PageID=235650&activetab=TabCTRL_DropDownTabsGovernment1&mode=2&in_hi_userid=2&cached=true|title=Governors of Bermuda|publisher=Government of Bermuda|access-date=21 November 2015}}{{Dead link|date=December 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
He went on to be General Officer Commanding, Chatham District in January 1867 and General Officer Commanding Eastern District in April 1870.{{cite web|url=http://www.gulabin.com/armynavy/pdf/Army%20Commands%201860-.pdf |title=Army Commands |access-date=21 November 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304112744/http://www.gulabin.com/armynavy/pdf/Army%20Commands%201860-.pdf |archive-date=4 March 2016 }}
Murray was also Colonel of the 57th (West Middlesex) Regiment of Foot from 1873 to 1875,{{cite web|url=http://www.regiments.org/regiments/uk/inf/057-757.htm |title=57th (the West Middlesex) Regiment of Foot |publisher=regiments.org |access-date=17 July 2016 |url-status=bot: unknown |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061201151140/http://www.regiments.org/regiments/uk/inf/057-757.htm |archive-date=1 December 2006 }} the 93rd (Sutherland Highlanders) Regiment of Foot from 1875 to 1876{{cite web|url=http://www.regiments.org/regiments/uk/inf/093-799.htm |title=93rd (Sutherland Highlanders) Regiment of Foot |publisher=regiments.org |access-date=12 August 2016 |url-status=bot: unknown |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060524020729/http://www.regiments.org/regiments/uk/inf/093-799.htm |archive-date=24 May 2006 }} and the Second Battalion, King's Royal Rifle Corps from 1876 to 1895.{{cite web|url=http://www.britishempire.co.uk/forces/armyunits/britishinfantry/krrccolonel.htm|title=King's Royal Rifle Corps|publisher=British Empire|access-date=21 November 2015}}
In 1832, he married Catherine Elizabeth Dundas, daughter of Hon. Charles Lawrence Dundas and granddaughter of Thomas Dundas, 1st Baron Dundas.{{cite book |last1=Lodge |first1=Edmund |title=The Peerage of the British Empire |date=1856 |page=591 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Uu8NAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA591 |language=en}}
References
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{{s-bef|before=Richard Farren}}
{{s-ttl|title=GOC Eastern District|years=1870–1872}}
{{s-aft|after=Alexander Hamilton-Gordon}}
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{{s-bef|before=Sir George Upton, 3rd Viscount Templetown}}
{{s-ttl|title=Colonel of the 2nd Battalion, 60th (King's Royal Rifle Corps) Regiment of Foot|years=1876–1895}}
{{s-aft|after=Sir Redvers Henry Buller}}
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{{s-bef|before=Sir Henry William Stisted}}
{{s-ttl|title=Colonel of the 93rd (Sutherland Highlanders) Regiment of Foot|years=1875–1876}}
{{s-aft|after=William Munro}}
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{{s-bef|before=Charles Richard Fox}}
{{s-ttl|title=Colonel of the 57th (West Middlesex) Regiment of Foot|years=1873–1875}}
{{s-aft|after=Sir Edward Alan Holdich}}
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Category:British Army generals