Alexander Murray (British Army officer, died 1762)
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| Service/ |  British Army |
| Commands held | 45th Regiment of Foot |
| Battles/wars | Father Le Loutre's War French and Indian War |
Alexander Murray (ca. 1715 – 1762) was a British army officer who served in Father Le Loutre's War and the French and Indian War in Nova Scotia. He was the cousin of James Murray.[1][2]
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- ^ Browne, G. P. (1979). "Murray, James". In Halpenny, Francess G (ed.). Dictionary of Canadian Biography. Vol. IV (1771–1800) (online ed.). University of Toronto Press.
- ^ Johnston, G. Harvey, The Heraldry of the Murrays, W. & A. K. Johnston Ltd. Edinburgh and London, 1910 - in which ‘Pedigree VII, The Murrays of Falahill’ shows Alexander as 5th cousin 2R of Alexander (8th Lord Elibank), eldest brother of James.
- Humphreys, John (1974). "Murray, Alexander (d. 1762)". In Halpenny, Francess G (ed.). Dictionary of Canadian Biography. Vol. III (1741–1770) (online ed.). University of Toronto Press.
- "The Letters of Colonel Alexander Murray 1742–1759". Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment: regimental annual 1938: Volumes 1921–1926; pp. 181–220.
- "Letters of Colonel Alexander Murray," Sherwood Foresters Regimental Annual, 1926 (London, 1927), 181–220; 1927 (London, 1928), 240–68.
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- Military history of Acadia
- Military history of Nova Scotia
- Military history of Canada
- 1710s births
- 1762 deaths
- British Army personnel of the War of the Austrian Succession
- British Army personnel of the Jacobite rising of 1745
- British Army personnel of the Seven Years' War
- Persons of National Historic Significance (Canada)