Murray, James (1)

a Scotch divine of some note, flourished in the first half of the 18th century. He was born at Dunkeld in 1702, and educated at the Marischal College, Aberdeen; after taking his degree he was licensed for the ministry. He died in 1758. He is supposed to have preached for a time at Westminster. He published Aetheia, or a General System of Moral Truths and Natural Religion (London, 1747, 2 volumes, 12mo). See Chalmers, Biog. Dict. s.v.; Wilson, Dissenting Churches.