found: Thomson, J. The seasons, 1850:t.p. (Rev. Patrick Murdoch, D.D., F.R.S.)
found: The seasons, 1837:t.p. (P. Murdock)
found: LC manual cat.(hdg.: Murdoch, Patrick, d. 1774)
found: MacLaurin, Colin. An account of Sir Isaac Newton's philosophical discoveries, 1750:title page (published from the author's manuscript papers by Patrick Murdoch, M.A. and F.R.S.)
found: Oxford dictionary of national biography, viewed online 10 July 2017:Murdoch, Patrick, d. 1774 (Murdoch, Patrick (d. 1774), Church of England clergyman and writer, was born in Dumfries; educated at the University of Edinburgh, where he distinguished himself in mathematics, and was the pupil and friend of Colin Maclaurin, from whom he probably acquired his interest in Newtonian philosophy and science; in 1729 he was appointed tutor to John Forbes, only son of Lord President Duncan Forbes of Culloden, and accompanied him on the grand tour of continental Europe; John Forbes later made him tutor to his son Duncan, as well; also travelling tutor to the younger sons of James Vernon, ambassador to the court of Denmark; ordained in the Scottish Episcopal church, he was presented by Vernon to the rectory of Stradishall in Suffolk in 1738; on 20 March 1745, was elected a fellow of the Royal Society; he published eight papers in the society's Transactions during his life; in 1748 he was admitted MA at Cambridge per literas regias; William Leman gave him the rectory of Kettlebaston, Suffolk, in 1749, which he resigned in 1760 on being presented by Edward Vernon to the vicarage of Great Thurlow; but he still continued to live at Stradishall; in Berlin 1756-1757, conducting part of the official correspondence, while Andrew Mitchell was with the army; received the degree of DD from the University of Edinburgh on 4 September 1763; wrote a memoir of the poet James Thomson; prefixed a life of Colin Maclaurin to that author's Account of Sir Isaac Newton's Philosophical Discoveries, published in London in 1748, which he saw through the press for the benefit of Maclaurin's children; also edited the illustrations of perspective from conic sections, Neutoni genesis curvarum per umbras (1746); he contemplated but later abandoned a complete edition of Newton's works; wrote Mercator's Sailing, Applied to the True Figure of the Earth (1741) and published A New System of Geography (London, 1762), a translation of a portion of the work by Anton Friedrich Buesching, relating to the European states, to which he prefixed three explanatory essays; died in the parish of St Clement Danes, London, in October 1774, buried at St Clement Danes church on 16 November 1774)
found: Oxford dictionary of national biography, viewed online 10 July 2017: MacLaurin, Colin, 1698-1746 (after death of mathematician and natural philosopher Colin MacLaurin on 14 June 1746, MacLaurin's wife and family put Patrick Murdoch in charge of editing MacLaurin's writings, which resulted in the appearance in 1748 of the Account of Sir Isaac Newton's Philosophical Discoveries and A Treatise of Algebra)
found: Oxford dictionary of national biography, viewed online 10 July 2017:Forbes, Duncan, 1685-1747 (Forbes, Duncan (1685-1747), politician and judge; Duncan Forbes inherited the family estates of Culloden, Bunchrew, and Ferintosh in 1734; Duncan Forbes and his wife Mary had a single child, John; Patrick Murdoch, author and mathematician, was former travelling tutor and a friend to Duncan Forbes's son; Duncan Forbes died 10 December 1747, leaving a heavily encumbered estate to his son, a cavalry officer)
