George Murray (1784-1860), Bishop of Sodor and Man from 1814 to 1827, and nephew of the Duke of Atholl.

He found the diocese in poor order and set about it. Things had fallen into a very scandalous state by the time he came, and he found great irregularities practised in some of the churches and a general carelessness pervading far too large a proportion of the clergy. He put the fabric of Bishop Wilson's chapel at St John's back in order, providing seats and some pews at his own expense. At Bishop's Court he repaired and modernised the building, levelling the ditches and mounds of earth that had given the place the aspect of a fortress and taking down part of the massive walls, which had probably belonged to a tower of the ancient palace.

The tithe question undid him. Until Bishop Wilson's day the farmers had paid tithe on green crops as well as corn, and later bishops had waived the claim, or at least forborne to collect it. Murray revived the demand for the tithe of potatoes, turnips and other green crops, and offered to commute the whole tithes for a fixed payment of six thousand pounds a year. Commutation might have suited both the Church and the people, but the sum was too high for the Island to bear, coming after 1816 when prices had fallen and there was much distress among the poorer farmers. His right to the green tithe was taken to the insular Exchequer Court in 1821. The Duke of Atholl backed his nephew in the demand, and the opposition became so determined that it had to be given up. It was one of the things that turned nearly every Manxman against the Duke.

He left in 1827, translated to Rochester, his influence for good, as A. W. Moore puts it, much vitiated by his action in the tithe question. The Dukes of Atholl having sold all their rights by then, the Manx bishopric passed under Crown patronage.