John Murray (died 1753)

Murray was the eldest son, of three sons and five daughters, born to the former Margaret Don and Sir James Murray, of Philiphaugh, Selkirk. His sister, Ann Murray, married John Pringle, Lord Haining.

His maternal grandfather was Sir Alexander Don, 1st Baronet, of Newton, Berwick. His paternal grandparents were Sir John Murray of Philiphaugh, MP for Selkirkshire and the former Anne Douglas (daughter of Archibald Douglas, 13th of Cavers).{{Cite ODNB|first=A. J.|last=Mann|title=Murray, Sir James, Lord Philiphaugh (1655-1708)|year=2004|url=https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-19615|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/19615}}

In 1708, he succeeded his father, becoming the hereditary Sheriff of Selkirk from 1708 until 1734.{{cite web|url = http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1715-1754/member/murray-john-1753| title= MURRAY, John (d.1753), of Philiphaugh, Selkirk.|publisher= History of Parliament Online|accessdate = 2013-02-27}} As head of a celebrated Border family, they owned great estates in Ettrick and Yarrow and acquired their Philiphaugh estates in the fifteenth century.

Murray was returned in a contest as Member of Parliament for Linlithgow Burghs at a by-election on 6 April 1725. He was returned unopposed at the 1727 British general election. At the 1734 British general election he was returned unopposed as MP for Selkirkshire. He was returned unopposed again in 1741. At the 1747 British general election he was opposed, but his opponent died before the poll whereupon an unknown candidate came forward who was defeated.

On 31 December 1711, Murray married Eleanor Hamilton ({{circa|1694}}–1783), eldest daughter of the former Mary Dunbar and Lord Basil Hamilton (sixth son of William Hamilton, Duke of Hamilton and Anne Hamilton, suo jure Duchess of Hamilton). Together, they were the parents of at least four sons and two daughters:{{cite book |last1=Paul |first1=James Balfour |title=The Scots Peerage: Founded on Wood's Edition of Sir Robert Douglas's Peerage of Scotland; Containing an Historical and Genealogical Account of the Nobility of that Kingdom |date=1910 |publisher=D. Douglas |page=518 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=p6IKAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA518 |access-date=4 November 2022 |language=en}}

• Basil Murray (d. 1747), a youth of great promise, who "died in the flower of his age."{{cite book |last1=Burke |first1=John |title=A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry; Or, Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland Etc |date=1838 |publisher=Henry Colburn |page=59 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vhpVAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA59 |access-date=4 November 2022 |language=en}}
• John Murray of Philiphaugh (1726–1800), who married N.N. Thomson.
• David Murray.
• Charles Murray, who married Augusta Eliza Nixon, sister of Robert Scott of Danesfield House.
• Mary Murray, who married Sir Alexander Don, 4th Baronet, of Newton.
• Margaret Murray.

Murray died on 2 July 1753 and was succeeded by his second son, John, as his eldest son had died in 1747. His widow died in December 1783.

Though his son John, he was a grandfather of James Murray, of Philiphaugh and Eleanor Murray (wife of Sir James Naesmyth, 3rd Baronet of Posso).

Though his son Charles, he was a grandfather of Charles Scott-Murray of Danesfield, MP for Buckinghamshire.

Through his daughter Mary, he was a grandfather of Sir Alexander Don, 5th Baronet, of Newton.

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