​MURRAY, Hugh (1779-1846). A Scottish geographer, born at North Berwick. After 1816, when he became a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, he applied himself to the study of geography. He was chiefly noted for his share in the Encyclopædia of Geography (1834). He also compiled historical or geographical works upon The Southern Seas (1826); Polar Seas (1830); Africa (1830); British India (1832); China (1836); British America (1839); and The United States (1844).