Vice Admiral George Murray (22 August 1741 – 17 October 1797) was a Royal Navy officer and politician.

He was the third son of the Jacobite general Lord George Murray.

[1] He was elected Member of Parliament for Perth burghs in 1790 but gave up his seat in 1796.

[1] He was made Commander-in-Chief, North American Station in 1794, establishing a permanent Royal Naval base at St. George's Town, at the East End of Bermuda (a colony in British North America),[3][4][5][6][7][8] with Admiralty House at Rose Hill, the ships of the squadron reaching Murray's Anchorage (named for him) in the lagoon enclosed by Bermuda's barrier reach via the newly discovered Hurd's Channel, and with various sites around the town acquired by the navy, including Convict Bay (below Barrack Hill at St. George's Garrison), Admiralty Island, and Naval Tanks (acquisition of land at Bermuda's West End also began in the 1790s for the longer term goal of the navy was the construction of the Royal Naval Dockyard with which Bermuda was to be elevated to an Imperial fortress).

[9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][1] He almost completely cleared North American waters of French men-of-war and privateers.