Alexander Murray, 6th Earl of Dunmore

Alexander Edward Murray, 6th Earl of Dunmore (1 June 1804 – 15 July 1845) was a British Army officer and peer. He was the son of George Murray, 5th Earl of Dunmore.

Early life He was the son of George Murray, 5th Earl of Dunmore and Lady Susan Hamilton. He had two younger brothers, Hon. Sir Charles Augustus Murray, a prominent diplomat, and Hon. Henry Anthony Murray, a Rear Admiral in the Royal Navy.

His paternal grandparents were John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore, and Lady Charlotte Stewart (a daughter of the 6th Earl of Galloway). His maternal grandparents were Archibald Hamilton, 9th Duke of Hamilton and Lady Harriet Stewart (also a daughter of the 6th Earl of Galloway). at Frankfurt am Main, Germany. She was a daughter of Gen. George Herbert, 11th Earl of Pembroke and Catherine Vorontsov (the German spelling is Woronzow) (a daughter of Count Semyon Vorontsov, the Russian Ambassador to the United Kingdom). After their marriage, they lived in London where his wife became a Lady of the Bedchamber to Queen Victoria and their children had play dates at Buckingham Palace with the future Edward VII. Together, they had four children:

Lady Susan Catherine Mary Murray (1837–1915), who married, as his second wife, James Carnegie, 9th Earl of Southesk, in 1860. who married William Elphinstone, 15th Lord Elphinstone, in 1864. and was succeeded in his titles by his only son, Charles.