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William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield, PC (2 March 1705 – 20 March 1793), was a British judge, politician, lawyer, and peer best known for his reforms to English law. Born in Scone Palace, Perthshire, to a family of Scottish nobility, he was educated in Perth before moving to London at the age of 13 to study at Westminster School.
William David Mungo James Murray, 8th Earl of Mansfield, 7th Earl of Mansfield, DL, JP (7 July 1930 – 21 October 2015), styled Lord Scone until 1970, was a British nobleman and Conservative politician.
The titles Earl of Mansfield (in the County of Nottingham) and Earl of Mansfield (in the County of Middlesex) were created in 1776 and 1792, respectively, for the Scottish lawyer and judge William Murray, 1st Baron Mansfield, fourth son of David Murray, 5th Viscount of Stormont (see Viscount of Stormont for the earlier history of the family).
The Portrait of Lord Mansfield is a 1783 portrait painting by the Anglo-American artist John Singleton Copley. It depicts the Scottish politician and lawyer William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield who was serving as Lord Chief Justice at the time. [1] He is shown in his robes as a member of the House of Lords where he sat as the Earl of Mansfield ...
The son of David William Murray, 3rd Earl of Mansfield, and Frederica Markham, daughter of William Markham, Archbishop of York, he succeeded his father in 1840 to the Earldom of Mansfield (1792 creation), and grandmother, Louisa Murray, 2nd Countess of Mansfield, in 1843 as Earl of Mansfield (1776 creation). [1] Murray was born in 56 Portland ...
William Markham was a close friend of his father, the 2nd Earl of Mansfield. They had nine children: [2] [12] [13] Lady Frederica Louisa Murray (1800–1823), who married Hon. James Hamilton Stanhope in 1823 and had one son, James Stanhope. Lady Elizabeth Anne Murray (born 1803), who died unmarried. Lady Caroline Murray (born 1805), who died ...
The son of William David Murray, Viscount Stormont, Mansfield succeeded to the family earldoms on the death of his grandfather, William Murray, 4th Earl of Mansfield, in 1898. [1] The 5th Earl, who was known as 'The most eligible bachelor' in London, he threw lavish parties at Kenwood House.
William Murray, 5th Earl of Mansfield (1860–1906), British nobleman, Earl of Mansfield William Murray, 8th Earl of Mansfield (1930–2015), Scottish nobleman and Conservative politician William Keith Murray (1801–1861), Scottish peer, landowner and soldier