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Charles Adolphus Murray, 7th Earl of Dunmore VD (24 March 1841 – 27 August 1907), styled Viscount Fincastle from birth until 1845, was a
He traveled to North America to observe the American Civil War with a number of other British officers. He then traveled at least as far as Manitoba and painted a number of watercolors across the United States and Canada.
In 1874, he was appointed a
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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
The Peerage of Scotland ( gd, Moraireachd na h-Alba, sco, Peerage o Scotland) is one of the five divisions of peerages in the United Kingdom and for those peers created by the King of Scots before 1707. Following that year's Treaty of Union ...
, Conservative politician, explorer, author, and artist.
Family background
Fincastle was the eldest son ofAlexander Murray, 6th Earl of Dunmore
Alexander Edward Murray, 6th Earl of Dunmore (1 June 1804 – 15 July 1845) was the son of George Murray, 5th Earl of Dunmore.
On 27 September 1836 in Frankfurt, Germany, he married Lady Catherine Herbert, daughter of the 11th Earl of Pembroke ...
and his wife, Catherine.
His maternal grandmother was the Russian noblewoman Countess Catherine Woronzoff (or Vorontsova), daughter of the Russian ambassador to St James's, Semyon Romanovich Vorontsov.
Biography
He traveled to North America to observe the American Civil War with a number of other British officers. He then traveled at least as far as Manitoba and painted a number of watercolors across the United States and Canada.
In 1874, he was appointed a Lord-in-waiting
Lords-in-waiting (male) or baronesses-in-waiting (female) are peers who hold office in the Royal Household of the sovereign of the United Kingdom. In the official Court Circular they are styled "Lord in Waiting" or "Baroness in Waiting" (without ...
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
Kashgar ( ug, قەشقەر, Qeshqer) or Kashi ( zh, c=喀什) is an oasis city in the Tarim Basin region of Southern Xinjiang. It is one of the westernmost cities of China, near the border with Afghanistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Pakistan ...
. He was engaged in some form of diplomacy or espionage but the matter is not clear.
Family
Lord Dunmore married Lady Gertrude Coke, third daughter of Thomas Coke, 2nd Earl of Leicester, on 5 April 1866. They had six children: * Alexander Edward, styled Viscount Fincastle, later 8th Earl of Dunmore (1871–1962) *Lady Evelyn Cobbold
Zainab Cobbold (born Lady Evelyn Murray; 17 July 1867 – January 1963) was a Scottish diarist, traveller and noblewoman who was known for her conversion to Islam in the Victorian era.
Biography
Born in Edinburgh in 1867, she was the eldest dau ...
(1867–1963), married John Dupuis Cobbold.
*Lady Muriel (d. 1946), married Harold Gore Browne.
*Lady Grace (1873–1960), married William James Barry, Esq.
*Lady Victoria Alexandrina (1877–1925)
*Lady Mildred (1878–1969), married (1) Gilbert Follet, (2) Sir John FitzGerald, 3rd Baronet.
Works
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Conservative Party (UK) Baronesses- and Lords-in-Waiting
Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders officers
Deputy Lieutenants of Inverness-shire
Lord-Lieutenants of Stirlingshire
1841 births
1907 deaths
Explorers of Central Asia
British people of Russian descent
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