The elder brother of Lord Advocate John Archibald Murray; he succeeded to the family estate at Henderland in 1795. Charles Macfarlane describes him as “a very keen Whig, but a jovial, hospitable, open-hearted, open-handed man.”

REFERENCES TO William Murray of Henderland:

Sydney Smith to Francis Jeffrey, [13 November 1804] in A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith. By his Daughter, Lady Holland. With a Selection from his Letters, edited by Mrs. Austin 2 vols (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855)

Walter Scott to J. B. S. Morritt of Rokeby, 2 March 1810 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837)

Sydney Smith to John Archibald Murray, 4 December 1843 in A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith. By his Daughter, Lady Holland. With a Selection from his Letters, edited by Mrs. Austin 2 vols (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855)