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Viscount of Stormont is a title in the Peerage of Scotland. It was created in 1621 by James VI for his friend and helper Sir David Murray who had saved him from the attack of the Earl of Gowrie in 1600.
Mansfield was the son of David Murray, 6th Viscount of Stormont, and his wife, Anne Stewart, heiress of John Stewart of Innernytie. The Lord Chief Justice, William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield, was his paternal uncle and mentor. Stormont inherited the family's estate and title of Viscount Stormont at 21 when his father died in 1748.
David Murray, 1st Viscount of Stormont (died 27 August 1631) was a Scottish courtier, comptroller of Scotland and captain of the king's guard, known as Sir David Murray of Gospertie, then Lord Scone, and afterwards Viscount Stormont. He is known for his zeal in carrying out the ecclesiastical policy of James VI and I, in which he was effective ...
The 1776 earldom was created with remainder to Louisa Murray (née Cathcart), Lady Stormont (daughter of Charles Schaw Cathcart, 9th Lord Cathcart), second wife of his nephew David Murray, 7th Viscount of Stormont, while the 1792 earldom (referring to a fictitious Mansfield in Middlesex to differentiate it from the first earldom) [2] was ...
Viscount of Stormont [83] 16 August 1621: Murray: extant: succeeded as Earl of Mansfield in 1793 and inherited the senior earldom of Mansfield in 1843 Viscount of Air: 2 February 1622: Crichton-Stuart: extant: created Earl of Dumfries in 1633; also Earl of Stair from 1758 to 1769; also Marquess of Bute from 1803 Viscount of Annand: c. 1622 ...
His eldest son, William David Murray, Viscount Stormont (1835-1893) who predeceased him. He died in 1898. In 1829 he had married Louisa, daughter of Cuthbert Ellison, Hebburn Hall, Durham, and they had one daughter and one son, Lady Louisa Murray who married third son of Henry Lascelles, 3rd Earl of Harewood and William David Murray, Viscount ...
David Murray, 6th Viscount Stormont. (print of the original painting at Kenwood) David Murray, 6th Viscount of Stormont (c. 1690 – 23 July 1748) was a Scottish peer.
He was the son of David Murray, 4th Viscount Stormont (died 1668), and Lady Jean Carnegie, daughter of James Carnegie, 2nd Earl of Southesk and Lady Mary Kerr, daughter of Robert Ker, 1st Earl of Roxburghe. In 1689, Stormont was summoned to attend the Committee of Estates in Edinburgh in the wake of the Glorious Revolution. [1]