Murdoch, William, engineer, born at Auchinleck, Ayrshire; was a manager of the Soho Works under Boulton and Watt, where he distinguished himself by his inventive ingenuity, and where on his suggestion coal-gas was first employed for lighting purposes (1754‒1830).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Murchison, Sir Roderick Impey * Mure, Colonel