Captain Patrick KEITH-MURRAY
2/1st Lothian and Border Horse

Date of birth: 28th November 1878
Date of death: 11th June 1937

Died aged 58
Buried at Ochtertyre Mausoleum
Patrick Keith-Murray was born at Ochtertyre, Monzievaird and Strowan, Perthshire on the 28th of November 1878 the second son of Sir Patrick Keith-Murray, 8th Baronet of Ochtertyre, and and Ione Campbell (nee Penney) of Crieff in Perthshire.

He was educated at Hazelwood School until July 1892 when he went on to Harrow School where he was in Mr. Moss' House from September 1892 to July 1894.

During the South African War he served in the Mounted Infantry contingent of the Queen's Rifle Volunteer Brigade, Royal Scots; he left the army on the 1st of January 1901.

He became a writer for the Signet magazine on the 23rd of March 1903 and practiced in Edinburgh. He was to married Cecilia Mary Dorothea (nee Sprot) on the 15th of July 1903 and they had two sons, Patrick Ian, born on the 28th of August 1904, and Robert Malise, born on the 15th of September 1906. They lived at 1 Douglas Gardens, Edinburgh.

Following the outbreak of war he applied for a commission in the Lothian and Border Horse Home Reserve on the 10th of January 1915. At a medical examination it was recorded that he was five feet eight inches tall. He was commissioned as a temporary Lieutenant in the regiment on the 11th of February 1915 and joined the 3/1st Regiment. He was promoted to Acting Captain while in command of a Company on the 12th of July 1917.

On the 19th of February 1918 he attended a Medical Board at the 2nd Scottish General Hospital, Edinburgh where is was found that he was suffering from a slight enlargement of the heart. He was later posted for service in Ireland where a Medical Board which sat at the Military Hospital, Londonderry on the 5th of June 1918 found that he was "quite recovered".

He was again promoted to Captain while in command of a Company on the 20th of November 1918 and relinquished that rank on the 3rd of January 1919. He was demobilised at No. 1 Dispersal Unit, Doddington on the 1st of February 1919.

He died at Aberturret near Crieff and was interred at Ochtertyre Mausoleum on the 15th of June 1937.

Went on to Harrow School

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