Recommended Tune: Duke John, by Niel Gow. Written for John Murray (1729-1774) who became the 3rd Duke of Atholl; he was the eldest son of Lord George Murray.

Devised to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the death of General Lord George Murray, a Scottish Jacobite general, most noted for his 1745 campaign under Bonnie Prince Charlie into England. Born 4 October 1694, he was the sixth son of John Murray, 1st Duke of Atholl. 

After the defeat at Culloden in 1745 he escaped to the European continent where he lived in numerous places. The last few years of his life he lived in Medemblik, Holland where he died on 11 October 1760. He is buried in the Church of St. Boniface in Medemblik.    
