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William David Murray, 4th Earl of Mansfield, 3rd Earl of Mansfield, KT, DL (21 February 1806 – 1 August 1898) was a British Conservative politician, known as Lord Stormont between 1806 and 1840. Kenwood House , Hampstead, London.
David Murray, 2nd Earl of Mansfield, 7th Viscount of Stormont, KT, PC (9 October 1727 – 1 September 1796) known as The Viscount of Stormont from 1748 to 1793, was a British diplomat and politician. He succeeded to both the Mansfield and Stormont lines of the Murray family, inheriting two titles and two fortunes.
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 ...
His third son was the prominent lawyer and judge William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield and Mansfield. In 1793 Lord Stormont's grandson, the seventh Viscount, succeeded his uncle as second Earl of Mansfield according to a special remainder in the letters patent. For further history of the titles, see the Earl of Mansfield.
Murray was born on 2 March 1705, at Scone Palace in Perthshire, Scotland, the fourth son of the 5th Viscount of Stormont and his wife Margaret [5] as one of eleven children. [6] [7] Both his parents were strong supporters of the Jacobite cause, [8] [9] and his older brother James followed "The Old Pretender" into exile, this left the family's finance relatively impoverished. [10]
His mother was Marjory Scott, and among his brothers were the Earl of Mansfield and the Jacobite James Murray. [ 1 ] The 6th Viscount also tended towards Jacobitism in his politics, writing the unpublished poem An Elegy sacred to the Memory of John , Earl of Strathmore , who was killed in 1715 , memorialising this Jacobite's death at the Battle ...
Caricature of Mansfield, Lord Ellenborough and Lord Brougham by John Doyle, 1838. Mansfield appointed William Atkinson to undertake essential structural reinforcement to Kenwood house between 1803 and 1839. Although the Mansfields preferred to live at their Scottish seat, Scone Palace, which had also been previously rebuilt by William Atkinson.
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 ...