George Murray, 5th Earl of Dunmore
George Murray, 5th Earl of Dunmore FRSE, 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. Among his siblings were Lady Catherine Murray, and Lady Augusta Murray.His paternal grandparents were William Murray, 3rd 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. His maternal grandparents were Alexander Stewart, 6th Earl of Galloway and Lady Catherine Cochrane.
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.He served as Lieutenant of the Middlesex Yeomanry in 1803 and Lieutenant-Colonel of the Haytor Volunteer Infantry, also in 1803.
Personal life
On 3 August 1803, Lord Dunmore married his first cousin, Lady Susan Hamilton, a daughter of Archibald Hamilton, 9th Duke of Hamilton and Lady Harriet Stewart. 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.- Alexander Edward Murray, 6th Earl of Dunmore, who married Lady Catherine Herbert, daughter of George Herbert, 11th Earl of Pembroke.
- Hon. Sir Charles Augustus Murray, 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.
- Hon. Henry Anthony Murray, a Rear Admiral in the Royal Navy. Henry's son, Charles Stewart Murray would become a superintendent in Bengal and briefly administrate the South Lushai Hills district.