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his own account. In short, he was a very clever, energetic, 

 and good-hearted man, of strict business habits, of undoubted 

 integrity, and was much Hked by a wide circle of friends. He 

 married, and became the father of eight children, six sons and 

 two daughters, of whom the younger daughter and one son 

 are dead. He and I agreed in our tastes, predilections, and 

 principles. He paid a visit to this country in the summer of 

 1839, and never could two brothers, though long placed under 

 opposite circumstances, be supposed to be more harmonious in 

 all their feelings and sentiments. In personal appearance w^e 

 were also alike ; five feet six or seven inches in height, massive 

 countenance, but given to merriment and laughter, of stout but 

 well-knit, energetic figure, and of firm and healthy tread. He 

 meant in a few years to have returned to this country, and to 

 have settled in Liverpool as a merchant in connection with 

 Jamaica. But this he did not realise. He died of intermittent 

 fever on 18th December, 1841, aged 47.^ Sooie time previous 

 to his visit to this country he had at different dates sent his 

 eldest son, William, and his eldest daughter, Jessie, to live under 

 my roof for the benefit of their education. After his return 

 he sent his two next sons, George and Thomas, and after his 

 death, Alexander, at my request, joined them. To these, my 

 nephews and nieces, I have always felt the same attachment a 

 parent has for his own children, and I have taken the same care 

 with their education — the same interest in their welfare. They 

 are most promising young people, and I trust they will yet be 

 an honour to their father's name and to my affectionate efforts 

 for their welfare. 



My third brother, William, was brought up as a saddler in 

 Edinburgh, but his health becoming infirm, he resolved to 

 emigrate to the milder climate of Australia, but died on his 



1. The Dumfries and Galloway Courier of 11th April, 1842, has 

 the following notice: — At Kingston, Jamaica, on the 18th of 

 December last, aged 47, Andrew Murray, Esq. of Williams- 

 field, in that Island. Mr Murray (who was brother to 

 Thomas Murray, LL.D., of Edinburgh), was a native of the 

 parish of Girthon ; his rise in the world to the position he 

 long held was the result of that ability, enterprise, and 

 integrity, which eminently marked his character. 



