MURRAY, Lindley, the author of a well-known English Grammar, was born at Swatara in Pennsylvania in 1745. After receiving his education at Philadelphia and New York, he entered his father's counting-house; but afterwards studied law, and practised at the bar until the breaking out of the war of independence, when he became a merchant, and soon amassed a handsome fortune, which enabled him to retire. He spent the remaining years of his life in England; and wrote The Power of Religion on the Mind in 1787, and his English Grammar in 1795. Several other school-books, both English and French, followed. His last publications were A Selection from Horne's Commentary on the Psalms, 12mo, 1809; and The Duty and Benefit of a Daily Perusal of the Scriptures, 1817. He died in February 1826. Memoirs of Lindley Murray were published by Elizabeth Frank, 8vo, York, 1826.