18G Autobiographical Notes. 



may have discovered an easy means to their acquisition in 

 America, where it is said he lectured. 



After residing successiveh" at 3 Albany Street, 6 Hope Park, 

 5 West Preston Street, and Colinton Bank, he finally settled at 

 Elm Bank near Lasswade, where he died on 15th April, 1872, in 

 his eighty-first year. He had been in frail health for some time 

 previously, but this did not deter him from beginning the study of 

 Gaelic, which occupied his attention during his later days. On 

 Thursday afternoon, the 18th, Mr Murray's remains were interred 

 in the quiet resting place of Restalrig Churchyard, Leith. A 

 contemporary account gives the following particulars: — "The 

 hearse containing the coffin, and three mourning coaches, in 

 which were the chief mourners, dro\e in from Lasswade, and 

 were met at the Register House at three o'clock by other nine 

 mourning coaches, containing magistrates, councillors, professors, 

 and other leading citizens. The cortege proceeded by Waterloo 

 Place, Regent Road, and London Road to the place of inter- 

 ment. At St. Margaret's the workmen of the firm of Murray & 

 Gibb joined in and marched in front of the hearse to the burial 

 ground, where they lined each side of the pathway to the grave. ^ 

 His wife, who was a native of Newton-Stewart, survived him until 

 1888. On her deatli his portrait, by a Glasgow artist, was pre- 

 sented to Gatehouse to be placed in the Town Hall, where it now 

 hangs. A small silver plate at the bottom has tlie following in- 

 scription: " This portrait of Thomas Murray, LL.D., a native of 

 Girthon and author of the 'Literary History of Galloway,' etc., 

 etc., is presented to the Town of Gatehouse by his grandson, 

 Thomas Murray Robertson, M.D., of Singapore. February, 18 — 

 (the last two figures are illegible). 



In the portrait Mr Murray appears sitting on a chair beside a 

 table with his right hand resting on a MS. At the foot of the 

 chair and leaning against it are two large volumes. The repre- 

 sentation is life size. 23 



A miniature by John Faed, R.S.A., was retained by the 

 family. Mr Murray left one son and three daughters. A daugh- 

 ter became the wife of Sir William Flunter, K.C.S.I., head of the 

 Civil Service in India ; and another married Dr Robert.son, of 



22. Dumfries Courur of April 23, 1872. 



23. This information was kindly obtained for me by the Rev. J. 



Stewart, Girthon Manse, Gatehouse. 



