George Murray

Vice-Admiral George Murray (22 August 1741 – 17 October 1797) was a Royal Navy officer and politician. He was the third son of the Jacobite general Lord George Murray.

Naval career Murray joined the Royal Navy in 1758 as a midshipman. In 1765 he became commander of the sloop HMS Ferret. From 1782 he commanded HMS Irresistible. with Admiralty House at Rose Hill, the ships of the squadron reaching Murray's Anchorage (named for him) in the lagoon enclosed by Bermuda's barrier reach via the newly discovered Hurd's Channel, and with various sites around the town acquired by the navy, including Convict Bay (below Barrack Hill at St. George's Garrison), Admiralty Island, and Naval Tanks (acquisition of land at Bermuda's West End also began in the 1790s for the longer term goal of the navy was the construction of the Royal Naval Dockyard with which Bermuda was to be elevated to an Imperial fortress). He almost completely cleared North American waters of French men-of-war and privateers. He returned to England in 1796 and died the following year.

Family In 1784 he married Wilhelmina King, daughter of Thomas King, 5th Baron King; they had no children.