George Murray, 5th Earl of Dunmore explained

Honorific Prefix:The Right Honourable
The Earl of Dunmore
Honorific Suffix:FRSE
Office:Member of Parliament for
Liskeard
Term Start:1801
Term End:1802
Predecessor:Parliament of Great Britain
Alongside:John Eliot
Successor:John Eliot
William Eliot
Term Start1:1800
Term End1:1801
Predecessor1:John Eliot
The Earl of Inchiquin
Alongside1:John Eliot
Successor1:Parliament of the United Kingdom
Birth Name:George Murray
Parents:John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore
Lady Charlotte Stewart
Children:Alexander Murray, 6th Earl of Dunmore
Sir Charles Murray
Henry Anthony Murray

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).

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.[1] His maternal grandparents were Alexander Stewart, 6th Earl of Galloway and Lady Catherine Cochrane (the youngest daughter of the 4th Earl of Dundonald).

He matriculated at Christ Church, Oxford in 1778.

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.[2]

He served as Lieutenant of the Middlesex Yeomanry in 1803 and Lieutenant-Colonel of the Haytor Volunteer Infantry, also in 1803.[2]

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: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.

Lord Dunmore died at Glen Finart in Argyllshire on 11 November 1836, aged 74.[3] He and was succeeded in his titles by his eldest son Alexander. Lady Dunmore died in May 1846, aged 71.[4]

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Notes and References

  1. Book: 20 . 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 . James Corbett David . University of Virginia Press . 2013. 9780813934259.
  2. Web site: Thorne . R. G. . MURRAY, George, Lord Fincastle (1762-1836), of Dunmore Park, nr. Falkirk, Stirling. . www.historyofparliamentonline.org . . 20 May 2024.
  3. Book: Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002. July 2006. The Royal Society of Edinburgh. 0-902-198-84-X. 20 October 2017. 4 March 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160304074135/https://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp2.pdf. dead.
  4. "Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990,