Alexander Murray, 6th Earl of Dunmore

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Lady Catherine Herbert
(m. 1836;died 1845)
The Earl of Dunmore
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Lithograph of Lord Dunmore, by Richard James Lane, 1846
Grand Master of the
Grand Lodge of Scotland
In office
1835–1836
Children4
Parent(s) George Murray, 5th Earl of Dunmore
Lady Susan Hamilton

Alexander Edward Murray, 6th Earl of Dunmore (1 June 1804 – 15 July 1845) was a British Army officer and peer. He was the son of George Murray, 5th Earl of Dunmore.

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Early life

He was the son of George Murray, 5th Earl of Dunmore and Lady Susan Hamilton. He had two younger brothers, Hon. Sir Charles Augustus Murray, a prominent diplomat, and Hon. Henry Anthony Murray, a Rear Admiral in the Royal Navy. [1]

His paternal grandparents were John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore, and Lady Charlotte Stewart (a daughter of the 6th Earl of Galloway). His maternal grandparents were Archibald Hamilton, 9th Duke of Hamilton and Lady Harriet Stewart (also a daughter of the 6th Earl of Galloway). [2]

Career

A Captain in the 9th Lancers, he served as aide-de-camp to Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge. [2]

Upon the death of his father on 11 November 1836, he succeeded as the 2nd Baron Dunmore, in the Peerage of the United Kingdom, which gave him an automatic seat in the House of Lords, as well as the 6th Viscount of Fincastle, 6th Earl of Dunmore, and 6th Lord Murray of Blair, Moulin, and Tillemot, all in the Peerage of Scotland. [2] He inherited the Hebridean Isle of Harris, a 150,000 acre estate. [3]

Personal life

On 27 September 1836, Viscount Fincastle married Lady Catherine Herbert (1814–1886) [4] at Frankfurt am Main, Germany. [5] She was a daughter of Gen. George Herbert, 11th Earl of Pembroke and Catherine Vorontsov (a daughter of Count Semyon Vorontsov, the Russian Ambassador to the United Kingdom). [6] After their marriage, they lived in London where his wife became a Lady of the Bedchamber to Queen Victoria and their children had play dates at Buckingham Palace with the future Edward VII. [3] Together, they had four children: [2]

Lord Dunmore died at his residence at Streatham on 15 July 1845, [8] and was succeeded in his titles by his only son, Charles. [2]

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References

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  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Mosley, Charles, editor. Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes. Wilmington, Delaware: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003, volume 1, p. 1232.
  3. 1 2 Macleod, Kristina (8 March 2020). "The Countess of Dunmore". www.harristweed.org. The Harris Tweed Authority. Retrieved 20 May 2024.
  4. "Catherine (née Herbert), Countess of Dunmore (1814-1886), Promoter of the Harris tweed industry; wife of 6th Earl of Dunmore; daughter of 11th Earl of Pembroke". www.npg.org.uk. National Portrait Gallery, London . Retrieved 20 May 2024.
  5. Debrett, John (1840). Debrett's Peerage of England, Scotland, and Ireland. revised, corrected and continued by G.W. Collen. p. 263. Retrieved 20 May 2024.
  6. Dod, Robert Phipps (1846). The Peerage, Baronetage, and Knightage of Great Britain and Ireland for ...: Including All the Titled Classes. Whittaker. p. 508. Retrieved 20 May 2024.
  7. "Constance Euphemia Woronzow (née Murray), Lady Elphinstone (1838-1922), Wife of 15th Baron Elphinstone; daughter of 6th Earl of Dunmore". www.npg.org.uk. National Portrait Gallery, London . Retrieved 20 May 2024.
  8. "DEATH OF THE EARL OF DUNMORE". The Morning Chronicle . 17 July 1845. p. 5. Retrieved 20 May 2024.
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