Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Murray, James (1702-1758)
MURRAY, JAMES (1702–1758), dissenting divine, born at Dunkeld, Perthshire, in 1702, was educated at Marischal College, Aberdeen, and having obtained presbyterian ordination removed to London, and for some years was assistant minister at Swallow Field Presbyterian Church, Piccadilly. He was not popular, and eventually retired, but found a patron in the Duke of Atholl, with whom he resided until his death in 1758. He published 'Aletheia; or a System of Moral Truths,' London, 1747, 2 vols. 12mo.
[New and Gen. Biog. Dict. 1798, xi. 142; Wilson's Hist, and Antiq. Dissenting Churches, iv. 48.]