General A general officer is an Officer (armed forces), officer of high rank in the army, armies, and in some nations' air force, air and space forces, marines or naval infantry. In some usages, the term "general officer" refers to a rank above colone ...

John Murray ( – 4 May 1824) was an Irish-born

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officer and colonial administrator in

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and

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. Murray joined the

in 1760 and rose to the rank of brigadier general in 1796. He was also an administrator of

Cape Breton Cape Breton Island (, formerly '; or '; ) is a rugged and irregularly shaped island on the Atlantic coast of North America and part of the province of Nova Scotia, Canada. The island accounts for 18.7% of Nova Scotia's total area. Although ...

from 1799 to 1801. Murray is notable in that during his short period as administrator, he made important improvements of roads and

coal mining Coal mining is the process of resource extraction, extracting coal from the ground or from a mine. Coal is valued for its Energy value of coal, energy content and since the 1880s has been widely used to Electricity generation, generate electr ...

operations among other things. He died in Paris in 1824. His eldest son, Lieutenant General John Murray, was Governor of

Demerara Demerara (; , ) is a historical region in the Guianas, on the north coast of South America, now part of the country of Guyana. It was a colony of the Dutch West India Company between 1745 and 1792 and a colony of the Dutch state from 1792 unti ...

from 1813 to 1814 and then for Demerara-Essequibo from 1814 to 1824. His second son,

Freeman Murray General (United Kingdom), General Freeman Murray Order of the Bath, CB (16 November 1804 – 14 April 1885) was a British Army officer who became General Officer Commanding Eastern Command (United Kingdom), Eastern District. Murray was born in ...

, was

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* 1730s births 1824 deaths British Army generals Governors of Demerara Lieutenant governors of Cape Breton Island {{Canada-gov-bio-stub