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{{Infobox military person
| name =Sir John Irvine Murray
| image =
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| birth_name =Sir John Irvine Murray
| birth_date = 31 July 1826
| death_date = {{dda|20 May 1902|31 July 1826|df=y}}
| placeofburial_label =
| placeofburial = [[Highgate Cemetery]]
| birth_place =[[Roxburghshire]], Scotland
| death_place = [[Kensington]], London, England
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| nickname =
| allegiance ={{flagicon|United Kingdom}} [[United Kingdom]]
| branch =[[Image:Flag of the British Army.svg|23px]] [[British Army]]
| serviceyears =
| rank =[[General (United Kingdom)|General]]
| unit =
| commands =[[14th Murray's Jat Lancers]]
| battles =
| awards =[[Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath]]
| relations =Sir [[Charles Woollcombe]] {{small|(son-in-law)}}
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}}

General '''Sir John Irvine Murray''', {{post-nominals|country=GBR|KCB}} (31 July 1826 – 20 May 1902) was a Scottish commanding officer of the [[British Indian Army]].<ref name="times">{{cite news |title= Obituary – Sir John Irvine Murray|work=[[The Times]] |date=22 May 1902 |page=4 }}</ref>

==Career==
Murray was the son of James Murray of [[Denholm]] and Margaret Irvine.<ref name="jedburgh">{{cite news |title=Brigadier Mary Murray |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0002162/19140828/085/0003 |accessdate=7 June 2019 |work=Jedburgh Gazette |date=28 August 1914 |page=3|url-access=subscription}}</ref>

He joined the British Indian Army in 1842, serving in the [[Punjabi campaign of 1848–49]]. During the [[Indian Rebellion of 1857]], while a captain serving with the [[Gwalior Contingent]], he raised and commanded the famed "[[14th Murray's Jat Lancers|Murray's Jat Lancers]]" (later known as the 14th Bengal Lancers). His regiment participated in a number of actions in 1857–58, especially at [[Meerut]], [[Delhi]] and [[Lucknow]].<ref name="times"/>

Murray's Lancers subsequently served in the [[Bhutan Field Force]] and formed part of the cavalry brigade of the [[Kabul Field Force]] during the [[Second Anglo-Afghan War|1878–79 Afghanistan War]]. In the second Oudh campaign and the operations on the [[Nepal]] frontier, he was in command of the regiment, and commanded a column in the final operations in Nepal.<ref name="times"/>

He was mentioned in despatches three times, and promoted to the brevet rank of major. For his services in the [[Bhutan War]], 1864–65, he was appointed a Companion or the [[Order of the Bath]] (CB) in the [[1873 Birthday Honours]]. He retired after commanding the Lahore division and was knighted in the same order (KCB) in the [[1897 Diamond Jubilee Honours]].<ref name="times"/>
[[File:Murray, John 1902.jpg|thumb|150px|Grave of John Irvine Murray in [[Highgate Cemetery]]]]
==Personal life==
In 1854, he married Wilhelmina Stanley Malcolm, daughter of Duncan Archibald Malcolm and Caroline Charlotte Stanley. They had two sons and four daughters. Their eldest son, Lt. Archibald Ross Murray, served in the Afghan War but died of cholera in 1879 at Tret Punjab.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Shadbolt |first1=Sidney H. |title=Afghan Campaigns of 1878, 1880: Biographical Division |date=2012 |publisher=Andrews UK Limited |isbn=9781781504352 |page=143 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Sma-BAAAQBAJ&pg=PA143 |accessdate=6 June 2019 |language=en}}</ref>

Their daughter Agnes Meade Murray married Lt.-Gen. Sir [[Charles Woollcombe]], and had two sons and a daughter. Agnes's younger son was killed in action in the First World War while serving with the [[King's Own Scottish Borderers]] at the [[Battle of La Bassée]].<ref>{{cite news |title= Obituary: Lieut.-Gen. Sir C. L. Woollcombe |work=[[The Times]] |date=8 May 1934 |page=18 }}</ref> Their daughter, Brigadier Mary Stewart Murray {{post-nominals|country=GBR|OBE|size=100%}} of the [[Salvation Army]], was decorated for her work in the [[Second Boer War]] and was awarded the [[Mons Star]] in the [[First World War]].<ref name="jedburgh"/><ref>{{cite book |title=Canada in the Great World War: Special services, heroic deeds, etc |date=1921 |publisher=United publishers of Canada, limited |page=[https://archive.org/details/canadawar06variuoft/page/n209 168] |url=https://archive.org/details/canadawar06variuoft |quote=Brigadier Mary Murray. |accessdate=7 June 2019 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Lt-Colonel Mary Murray and family |url=http://www.mundus.ac.uk/cats/62/1336.htm |publisher=Salvation Army International Heritage Centre}}</ref>

He died in 1902 and was buried on the western side of [[Highgate Cemetery]].

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