1844 - 1928 (84 years)
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Name |
Charles Wyndham Murray |
Prefix |
Col Sir |
Suffix |
KCB |
Birth |
1844 |
Gender |
Male |
Death |
1928 |
Person ID |
I68369 |
My Genealogy |
Last Modified |
17 Nov 2020 |
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Notes |
- Educated at Marlborough College. Ensign 61st South Gloucestershire Regiment Nov 1862, Lieutenant Oct 1865. Passed from Staff College 1872. Deputy-Assistant Quartermaster-General Cork 1875, then Intelligence Dept. Dublin. Captain Oct 1877. Military attach? in Turkey 1878. Zulu war 1879, aide-de-camp to Major General Crealocke (1st Division), then with Clarke's column on reconnaisance missions (medal and clasp). Spring 1880 attached to 72nd Highlanders at Kabul (staff), orderly officer to General Baker, Logar Valley expedition May-Jun 1880. Major Jul 1881. Egyptian war 1882, Deputy Assistant Adjutant and Quartermaster-General on the base and lines of communication, present at Tel-el-Kebir, also Khedieve's Star and 4th Class Osmanieh. 1884-85 Bechuanaland operations. Conservative MP for Bath 1892-1906. CB 1902, knighted 1905. Chairman of the Japan Society and held Order of the Rising Sun. Appointed Gentleman Usher of the Scarlet Rod in the Order of the Bath 1913, and Knight of Justice of the Order of St John. WWI served as military King's Messenger in France. KCB 1917.
Charles W Murray also wrote a short biography of himself and there is a copy in the Reference section of the Public Library in Bath, England.
At the Main Entrance to St Pauls Cathedral in London there are 2 enormous candle holders which were given to St Pauls in memory of his father.
Culverlands, the residence of Col. Sir Charles Wyndham Murray, C.B., is an 18th-century house altered and enlarged in 1879. It is a plain plastered building with a balustraded parapet and slate roofs, situated in an elevated well-wooded park, the cedars being particularly fine. The araucarias were raised from seed brought from South America by the late Thomas Bland Garland and are probably the oldest in England grown on this method.
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