Major General James Patrick Murray (21 January 1782 – 5 December 1834)[1] was a British Army officer who served briefly as a Member of Parliament (MP), despite being under age.

[2] Murray joined the British Army in 1797, rising to the rank of major general before he retired in 1830.

He served with his relative Sir James Pulteney in the Anglo-Russian invasion of Holland and the Ferrol Expedition.

[2] He lost the use of his right arm during the Peninsular War, and retired to his home at Killenure near Athlone in Ireland.

[4] Murray resigned his seat in early 1803, by the procedural device of accepting appointment to the sinecure of Steward of the Manor of East Hendred.