Thomas Murray of Berkhamstead, Provost of Eton

Family
Secretary Murray married Jean Drummond, a daughter of George Drummond of Blair and Grissel Cargill, who had joined her cousin Jean Drummond, Countess of Roxburghe at the court of Anne of Denmark. Several women of the Drummond family served the court and their identities can be confused.

The Countess of Roxburghe was later the governess of the children of Charles I of England. Two of her cousins, another Jean Drummond, the eldest daughter of the Earl of Perth and later Countess of Wigtown, and her sister Lilias Drummond, later Countess of Tullibardine, assisted Roxburghe as royal nurse. Another woman "Joan Drummond" was seamstress to Prince Charles in Scotland and England.

Anne Murray, Lady Halkett wrote that her mother was "entrusted twice with the charge and honor of beeing Governese to the Duke of Glocester and the Princese Elizabeth; the first during the time that the Countese of Roxbery (who owned my mother for her cousin) went and continued in Holland with the Princese Royall; and then again when my Lady Roxbery died".

The children of Secretary Murray and Jean Drummond were brought up at Berkhamsted Place and Charlton House, included:

• Henry Murray, groom of the bedchamber to Charles I, who bought Lindsay House from Sir David Cunningham, and married in November 1635 Anne Bayning, daughter of Paul Bayning, 1st Viscount Bayning.
• Elizabeth Murray, who married Sir Henry Newton, son of Prince Henry's tutor Adam Newton, who adopted the name Sir Henry Puckering
• Anne Murray, Lady Halkett (1622-1699), who married James Halkett at Charlton House in 1656.