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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 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 ...
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 ...
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]
George Reginald Oliver Molyneux Herbert, 8th Earl of Carnarvon (born 10 November 1956), styled Lord Porchester from 1987 to 2001, is a British peer and farmer. His family seat, Highclere Castle, has achieved notability as the primary filming location for television series' Downton Abbey and Jeeves and Wooster. Carnarvon and his family live in ...
Quentin Wallop was born on 25 July 1954, the son of Oliver Kintzing Wallop, Viscount Lymington (d. 1984) and Ruth Violet née Sladen (d. 1978). His mother was the second daughter of Brigadier General Gerald Carew Sladen and his wife Mabel Ursula Orr-Ewing, a daughter of Sir Archibald Ernest Orr-Ewing.
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 ...
Allen Christopher Bertram Bathurst, 9th Earl Bathurst (born 11 March 1961), known as Lord Apsley until 2011, is a British peer, landowner and property developer. [ 1 ] Life