John Murray III

The eldest son of John Murray II (1778–1843) by Anne Elliott, daughter of Charles Elliot, the Edinburgh publisher, he was born on 16 April 1808.

When he was four years old his father moved the firm to 50 Albemarle Street, which became a meeting-place for men of letters.

He completed his education by foreign travel, in Weimar delivering the dedication of Lord Byron's Marino Faliero to Goethe.

He was a magistrate for Surrey, a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London, and known as a member of the Athenæum Club.

After a preliminary service in St. James's, Piccadilly, he was buried on 6 April in the parish church at Wimbledon, where he had resided for nearly 50 years.

John Murray III
On the origin of species by means of natural selection OR the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life, 2nd edition. By Charles Darwin, John Murray, London, 1860. National Museum of Scotland