General Sir Henry Murray KCB (6 August 1784 – 29 July 1860) was a distinguished British Army officer who fought in the Napoleonic Wars.

[7] On 28 June 1810 Murray married Emily, the illegitimate and only child of Gerard de Vismé,[8] a wealthy French Huguenot and member of the British Factory in Lisbon.

Henry and Emily's children : Their son, Arthur Stormont Murray of the Rifle Brigade was killed at the age of 28 in August 1848 at the head of a company fighting the Boers at Bloem Platts in the Cape of Good Hope.

[9] The Murrays resided at Wimbledon Lodge, home commissioned for Gerard de Vismé, considered to be the village's finest Georgian building.

Sir Henry became a major figure in local Wimbledon politics once his military career ended, and he was active in the Vestry, the municipal administration of the day.

In 1840, he vigorously opposed the prohibition of Wimbledon's annual Easter fair, describing it as one of the only celebrations "the labouring classes have the opportunity to enjoy.