Lord Charles Murray-Aynsley

Lord Charles Murray-Aynsley (21 October 1771 – 5 May 1808) was an English dean.

Life He was the youngest of nine children of John Murray, 3rd Duke of Atholl, and Charlotte Murray, Duchess of Atholl, and baptized as Charles Murray. He matriculated in 1789 at New College, Oxford, graduating B.A. in 1792, and M.A. 1801. On his marriage in 1793 he changed his surname to Murray-Aynsley. He was ordained deacon in 1801, and priest in 1802, by Shute Barrington.

In 1803 Murray-Aynsley was made Dean of Bocking, in Essex.

Family On 18 June 1793 Lord Charles Murray married Alicia Mitford (1768–1813), daughter of George Mitford, and heiress of her great-uncle, Gawen Aynsley, Esq. Upon the marriage, he assumed the single surname Aynsley.

Murray-Aynsley and his wife had seven children, three of whom did not survive to adulthood:

Charlotte Murray-Aynsley (8 April 1794 – 22 February 1827), married Sir John Oswald in 1812 John Murray-Aynsley (2 June 1795 – 25 March 1870), married Emma Sara Peach on 24 June 1820 and had issue, including Hugh Murray-Aynsley. Charles Collingwood Murray-Aynsley (1796–1797) George Edward Murray-Aynsley (b. 1798), died young Athole Keturah Murray-Aynsley (22 July 1801 – 26 January 1844), married Sir Herbert Oakeley, 3rd Baronet on 5 June 1826 Elizabeth Anne Murray-Aynsley (30 October 1802 – 7 June 1880) Charles Edward Murray-Aynsley (December 1805 – August 1815)