John Murray

John Murray (died 2 July 1753), of Philiphaugh, Selkirk, was a Scottish politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1725 to 1753.

Early life 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.

Career In 1708, he succeeded his father, becoming the hereditary Sheriff of Selkirk from 1708 until 1734. As head of a celebrated Border family, they owned great estates in Ettrick and Yarrow and acquired their Philiphaugh estates in the fifteenth century.

Basil Murray (d. 1747), a youth of great promise, who "died in the flower of his age." 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.

Descendants 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.