Hugh Murray (geographer)
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Hugh Murray FRSE FRGS (1779–1846) was a Scottish geographer and writer. He is often referred to as Hew Murray.
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He was the younger son of Rev Matthew Murray FRSE (1735–1791), minister of North Berwick, and his wife, Anne Hill (d.1803) daughter of Ref John Hill, of St. Andrews, and sister of Henry David Hill, professor at St. Andrews,[1] and of Rev George Hill.
Murray entered the Edinburgh excise office as a clerk.
On 22 January 1816 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Rev Thomas Brown, John Leslie and John Playfair.[2] At this time he was living at 24 Stockbridge, Edinburgh.[3] He was also a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society of London.
Murray was editor of the Scots Magazine from 1816 to 1817.[4] His connection with Archibald Constable's Edinburgh Gazetteer caused him to figure in the Tory squib, written by James Hogg and others,[5] called Translation from an Ancient Chaldee MS., which appeared in Blackwood's Magazine for October 1817.[1] He also featured as the character Murphy in John Paterson's Mare, Hogg's allegorical satire on the Edinburgh publishing scene first published in the Newcastle Magazine in 1825.[4]
Murray died after a short illness, while on a visit to London, in Wardrobe Place, Doctors' Commons, on 4 March 1846.[1]
