Charles Murray, 1st Earl of Dunmore

Charles Murray, 1st Earl of Dunmore PC (24 February 1661 – 19 April 1710) was a British peer, previously Lord Charles Murray.

Early life Lord Charles Murray was born on 24 February 1661. He was the second son of Lady Amelia Anne Sophia Stanley and John Murray, 1st Marquess of Atholl, a leading Scottish royalist and defender of the Stuarts during the English Civil War of the 1640s, until after the rise to power of William and Mary. His elder brother John Murray, who inherited their father's marquessate in May 1703, was created 1st Duke of Atholl in June 1703. Among his younger brothers were Lord James Murray and William Murray, 2nd Lord Nairne. all on 16 August 1686 in the Peerage of Scotland. Lord Dunmore was imprisoned as a suspected Jacobite in 1689, again, in 1692, and lastly in 1696. Nevertheless, he served as Master of Horse to Princesses Mary and Anne. He was appointed Privy Counsellor in 1703.

Personal life On 8 December 1682, Murray married Catherine Watts, daughter and heiress of Richard Watts of Great Munden, Hertfordshire. Together they had five sons and three daughters: in 1706.

Lord Dunmore died on 19 April 1710 and was succeeded by his son, John, as his eldest son, James, who was styled Viscount Fincastle, had died unmarried and without issue in 1704. and Lady Catherine Cochrane (wife of Alexander Stewart, 6th Earl of Galloway).

Through his daughter Lady Catherine's marriage to John Nairne, he was a grandfather of one grandson who survived infancy, John Murray (father of William Murray Nairne, 5th Lord Nairne).