About George Murray, 5th Earl of Dunmore
Lived 1762 – 1836 (aged 74). George Murray, 5th Earl of Dunmore was a British politician and aristocrat.
George Murray, 5th Earl of Dunmore FRSE (30 April 1762 – 11 November 1836), known as Viscount of Fincastle until 1809, was a Scottish peer.
Early life Murray was the eldest son of John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore, and Lady Charlotte (née Stewart). Among his siblings were Lady Catherine Murray (wife of MP Hon. Edward Bouverie, a son of the 1st Earl of Radnor), and Lady Augusta Murray (who married Prince Augustus Frederick, son of King George III). His maternal grandparents were Alexander Stewart, 6th Earl of Galloway and Lady Catherine Cochrane (the youngest daughter of the 4th Earl of Dundonald).
He served as Lieutenant of the Middlesex Yeomanry in 1803 and Lieutenant-Colonel of the Haytor Volunteer Infantry, also in 1803.
Alexander Edward Murray, 6th Earl of Dunmore (1804–1845), who married Lady Catherine Herbert, daughter of George Herbert, 11th Earl of Pembroke. He was succeeded in his titles by his eldest son Alexander. Lady Dunmore died in May 1846, aged 71.
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