Alexander Murray, 6th Earl of Dunmore

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.

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).

Career

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

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. He inherited the Hebridean Isle of Harris, a 150,000 acre estate.

Personal life

On 27 September 1836, Viscount Fincastle married Lady Catherine Herbert (1814–1886) at Frankfurt am Main, Germany. 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). 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. Together, they had four children: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.

• Lady Susan Catherine Mary Murray (1837–1915), who married, as his second wife, James Carnegie, 9th Earl of Southesk, in 1860.
• Lady Constance Euphemia Woronzow Murray (1838–1922), who married William Elphinstone, 15th Lord Elphinstone, in 1864.
• Charles Adolphus Murray, 7th Earl of Dunmore (1841–1907), who married Lady Gertrude Coke, daughter of Thomas Coke, 2nd Earl of Leicester and Juliana Whitbread (a daughter of Samuel Charles Whitbread), in 1866.
• Lady Victoria Alexandrina Murray (1845–1911), who married, as his second wife, Rev. Henry Cunliffe, son of Sir Robert Cunliffe, 4th Baronet.

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

References

References

1. 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.
2. "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". [[National Portrait Gallery, London]].
3. (1840). "Debrett's Peerage of England, Scotland, and Ireland. revised, corrected and continued by G.W. Collen".
4. (1846). "The Peerage, Baronetage, and Knightage of Great Britain and Ireland for ...: Including All the Titled Classes". Whittaker.
5. (8 March 2020). "The Countess of Dunmore". The Harris Tweed Authority.
6. "Constance Euphemia Woronzow (née Murray), Lady Elphinstone (1838-1922), Wife of 15th Baron Elphinstone; daughter of 6th Earl of Dunmore". [[National Portrait Gallery, London]].
7. (17 Jul 1845). "DEATH OF THE EARL OF DUNMORE". [[The Morning Chronicle]].