British politician
George Murray, 5th Earl of Dunmore FRSE (30 April 1762 – 11 November 1836), known as Viscount of Fincastle until 1809, was a Scottish peer .
Early life
Murray was the eldest son of John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore , and Lady Charlotte (née Stewart). Among his siblings were Lady Catherine Murray (wife of MP Hon. Edward Bouverie , a son of the 1st Earl of Radnor ), and Lady Augusta Murray (who married Prince Augustus Frederick , son of King George III ).[ 1]
His paternal grandparents were William Murray, 3rd Earl of Dunmore (a nephew of the 2nd Earl of Dunmore ) and Catherine Nairne. His father joined the ill-fated Rising of "Bonnie Prince Charlie " and was appointed as a page to Prince Charles.[ 2] Alexander Stewart, 6th Earl of Galloway and Lady Catherine Cochrane (the youngest daughter of the 4th Earl of Dundonald ).[ 1]
He matriculated at Christ Church, Oxford in 1778.[ 3]
Career
As Lord Fincastle, a courtesy title afforded to him as the heir to the earldom of Dunmore , he was returned to the House of Commons for Liskeard in 1800, on the interest of Lord Eliot, a seat he held until 1802. He succeeded his father in the earldom in 1809. For his support of the Whigs , he was created Baron Dunmore , of Dunmore in the Forest of Athole in the County of Perth, in the Peerage of the United Kingdom , in 1831 which gave him an automatic seat in the House of Lords .[ 3]
He served as Lieutenant of the Middlesex Yeomanry in 1803 and Lieutenant-Colonel of the Haytor Volunteer Infantry, also in 1803.[ 3]
Personal life
On 3 August 1803, Lord Dunmore married his first cousin, Lady Susan Hamilton (1774–1846), a daughter of Archibald Hamilton, 9th Duke of Hamilton and Lady Harriet Stewart (a daughter of the 6th Earl of Galloway ). Together, they were the parents of:[ 1]
Alexander Edward Murray, 6th Earl of Dunmore (1804–1845), who married Lady Catherine Herbert , daughter of George Herbert, 11th Earl of Pembroke .[ 1] Hon. Sir Charles Augustus Murray (1806–1895), who became a prominent diplomat who married Elizabeth "Elise" Wadsworth, a daughter of James Wadsworth , of Geneseo, New York , in 1850. After her death in 1851, he married his first cousin, once removed, Hon. Edith Susan Esther FitzPatrick, a daughter of John FitzPatrick, 1st Baron Castletown and Augusta Douglas, in 1862.[ 1]
Hon. Henry Anthony Murray (1810–1865), a Rear Admiral in the Royal Navy .[ 1] Lord Dunmore died at Glen Finart in Argyllshire on 11 November 1836, aged 74.[ 4] Alexander . Lady Dunmore died in May 1846, aged 71.[ 5]
References
^ a b c d e f Mosley, Charles, editor. Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, 106th edition, 2 volumes. Crans, Switzerland : Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd , 1999, volume 1, page 1284.
^ James Corbett David (2013). Dunmore's New World: The Extraordinary Life of a Royal Governor in Revolutionary America--with Jacobites, Counterfeiters, Land Schemes, Shipwrecks, Scalping, Indian Politics, Runaway Slaves, and Two Illegal Royal Weddings ISBN 9780813934259 ^ a b c Thorne, R. G. "MURRAY, George, Lord Fincastle (1762-1836), of Dunmore Park, nr. Falkirk, Stirling" . www.historyofparliamentonline.org . History of Parliament Online . Retrieved 20 May 2024 . ^ Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002 (PDF) . The Royal Society of Edinburgh. July 2006. ISBN 0-902-198-84-X the original (PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 20 October 2017 .^ "Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990, [page needed
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