Sir John Atholl Bannatyne Murray-Macgregor of Macgregor, 3rd Baronet (20 January 1810 – 11 May 1851) was a Scottish baronet and colonial administrator, who served briefly as

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in 1851.

Early life

John Atholl Bannatyne Murray was born on 20 January 1810. He was the eldest son of Lieutenant-Colonel (later Major-General) Evan John Murray (1785–1841), an officer in the

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, and his wife Lady Elizabeth Murray (1787–1846). He had four younger brothers, Evan John William Murray-Macgregor, James Strathallan Murray-Macgregor, Lt. Francis Alexander Robert Murray-Macgregor, and Lt.-Col. Ernest Augustus Murray-Macgregor. In 1822, his father inherited the

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and the

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cy created for his own father in 1795, after which Murray added Macgregor to his surname. Sir Evan later served as

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from 1831 to 1832,

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and the

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from 1832 to 1836, and

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and the

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from 1836 to 1841. G. E. Cokayne, '' The Complete Baronetage'', vol. 6 (Exeter: W. Pollard & Co., 1900), p. 303. His paternal grandparents were Capt. Sir John Macgregor Murray, 1st Baronet, an officer in the

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, and Anne Macleod (a daughter of Roderick Macleod, WS, of

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). His maternal grandparents were

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and the former Hon. Jane Cathcart (daughter of the 9th Lord Cathcart and Jane, Lady Cathcart).

Career

In late 1850, Murray-Macgregor was appointed President of the

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. He arrived there in March 1851 and assumed office on 24 March, shortly before his death there on 11 May 1851.

Personal life

On 14 November 1833, he married Mary Charlotte Hardy (d. 1896), youngest daughter and co-heiress of Rear-Admiral Sir Thomas Masterman Hardy, 1st Baronet and the former Anna Louisa Berkeley (daughter of Sir

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). He had several children: * Sir Malcolm Murray-MacGregor, 4th Baronet (1834–1879), a Rear Admiral in the

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; he married Lady Helen Laura McDonnell, daughter of Hugh McDonnell, 4th Earl of Antrim and Lady Laura Cecilia Parker (a daughter of the 5th Earl of Macclesfield), in 1864. * Atholl Murray-Macgregor (1836–1922), who worked in the

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; he married Caroline Mary Stuart

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, daughter of Sir Robert Menzies, 7th Baronet and Annie Balcarres Stewart, in 1878.Mosley, Charles, editor. ''Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, 106th edition, 2 volumes''. Crans, Switzerland:

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, 1999, volume 1, page 213. * Emily Louisa Murray-Macgregor (–1919), who married David Murray, Viscount Stormont, only son and heir apparent of

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, in 1857. * Sir Evan Murray-Macgregor (1842–1926), who became

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; he married Annie Louise Middleton, daughter of Col. William Alexander Middleton, in 1884. * Alpin Murray-Macgregor (1846–1899), a gentleman usher to

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who died unmarried. * Mary Elizabeth Murray-Macgregor (1848–1934), who married John Charles Thynne, son of Rev.

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(third son of the 2nd Marquess of Bath) and Anne Constantia Beresford, in 1871. Sir John died at

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on 11 May 1851. His body was interred on the island in a lead coffin so that it could eventually be transported to buried in Scotland. His funeral on the Virgin Islands was attended by many and HMS ''Helena'' fired its minute guns in

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."Sir John Murray Macgregor, Bart."
''The Illustrated London News'', 21 June 1851, p. 14.

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