Mungo Murray, 7th Earl of Mansfield and Mansfield

Mungo David Malcolm Murray, 7th Earl of Mansfield, 6th Earl of Mansfield FLS FZS FSAScot FRHS JP DL (9 August 1900 – 2 September 1971), styled Lord Scone from 1906 to 1935, was a Scottish Unionist Party politician.

Early life Mansfield was the son of Alan David Murray, and Margaret Helen Mary MacGregor, who were first cousins. Upon the death of his unmarried uncle in 1906, his father became the Earl of Mansfield and young Mungo was styled Lord Scone.

He graduated from Christ Church, Oxford, in 1922.

In 1933 he was one of eleven people, involved in the appeal that led to the foundation of the British Trust for Ornithology (BTO), an organisation for the study of birds in the British Isles, of which he became the founding chairman. He was appointed Fellow, Linnean Society, a Fellow, Zoologicial Society, a Fellow, Society of Antiquaries, Scotland, and a Fellow, Royal Horticultural Society. He also served as a Justice of the Peace for Perthshire, Dumfries-shire and was Deputy Lieutenant of Dumfries-shire in 1947.

Personal life

Wedding of Princess Maud & Charles Carnegie, 11th Earl of Southesk. Dorothea was half first cousin to the 11th Earl. (she was the second from the right) In 1928, Lord Mansfield married Dorothea Helena Carnegie, a younger daughter of the British diplomat Sir Lancelot Carnegie (second son of James Carnegie, 9th Earl of Southesk). Dorothea was a half first cousin to Charles Carnegie, 11th Earl of Southesk and was a part of his 1923 wedding to Princess Maud (daughter of Louise, Princess Royal and the 1st Duke of Fife). Together, they were the parents of: who married Pamela Joan Foster, a daughter of Wilfred Neill Foster and Millicent Agnes Mary Duckham, in 1955.