Alexander Murray of Elibank
Alexander Murray | |
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Alexander Murray of Elibank by Allan Ramsay | |
| Born | 9 December 1712 Ballencrieff Castle, East Lothian, Scotland |
| Died | 27 February 1778 (aged 65) Taplow, Buckinghamshire, England |
| Known for | Elibank Plot |
| Movement | Jacobitism |
Alexander Leopold Murray of Elibank (9 December 1712 – 27 February 1778), generally called Count Murray after 1759, was a British Army officer and Jacobite agent. He gave his name to the Elibank Plot, a 1752 scheme to kidnap George II of Great Britain and restore the exiled House of Stuart.
Murray was a shrewd operative, and Horace Walpole said that he and his brother were "both such active Jacobites, that if the Pretender had succeeded, they could have produced many witnesses to testify their zeal for him; both so cautious, that no witnesses of actual treason could be produced by the government against them".