Charles Murray, 7th Earl of Dunmore

Charles Adolphus Murray, 7th Earl of Dunmore VD (24 March 1841 – 27 August 1907), styled Viscount Fincastle from birth until 1845, was a Scottish peer and Conservative politician.

"Charlie". Caricature by Spy published in Vanity Fair in 1878.

Background

Fincastle was the eldest son of Alexander Murray, 6th Earl of Dunmore and his wife, Catherine.[1] His maternal grandmother was the Russian noblewoman Countess Catherine Woronzoff (or Vorontsova), daughter of the Russian ambassador to St James's, Semyon Romanovich Vorontsov.

Career

In 1874, he was appointed a Lord-in-waiting in Disraeli's government, a post he held until 1880. In 1875, he was made Lord Lieutenant of Stirlingshire, which he remained until 1885. In 1882 he was appointed Lieutenant-Colonel of the 1st Inverness-shire Rifle Volunteers (later the 1st Volunteer Battalion, Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders). He retired in 1896. In 1892–93 he traveled through the eastern Pamirs to Kashgar. He was engaged in some form of diplomacy or espionage but the matter is not clear.[2]

Family

Lord Dunmore married Lady Gertrude Coke, third daughter of Thomas Coke, 2nd Earl of Leicester, on 5 April 1866.[1] They had six children:

Works

  • The Pamirs: Being a Narrative of a Year's Expedition on Horseback and on Foot Through Kashmir, Western Tibet, Chinese Tartary, and Russian Central Asia. J. Murray. 1894.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  • The Revelation of Christianus and Other Christian Science Poems. University Press. 1901.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)

Notes

References

Political offices
Preceded by
The Earl of Breadalbane and Holland
Lord-in-waiting
18741880
Succeeded by
The Earl of Zetland
Honorary titles
Preceded by
The Duke of Montrose
Lord Lieutenant of Stirlingshire
18751885
Succeeded by
The Duke of Montrose
Military offices
Preceded by
Vacant
(prev. The Duke of Clarence)
Colonel of the 1st Volunteer Battalion
of the Cameron Highlanders

18961908
Succeeded by
Sir John Ewart
Peerage of Scotland
Preceded by
Alexander Murray
Earl of Dunmore
18451907
Succeeded by
Alexander Murray



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