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Family and Education

b. c. 1690, 2nd s. of David Murray, 5th Visct. Stormont [S] by Margery, da. and h. of David Scott of Scotstarvet, Fife, and bro. of Hon. William Murray†, 1st Earl of Mansfield. educ. adv. 1710. unm. cr. Earl of Dunbar (Jacobite peerage) 2 Feb. 1721.

Offices Held

Commissary for commercial negotiations with France 1713–15.

Sec. of state [S] to the Pretender Oct. 1715; gov. to Prince Charles Edward 1725–41. Scot. Hist. Soc. ser. 3, xxxi. 17, 21; CJ, xvii. 575; Cal. Treas. Pprs. 1708–14, p. 599; 1714–19, p. 94; G. H. Jones, Mainstream of Jacobitism, 158, 164–5; Ruvigny, Jacobite Peerage, 44.

Parlimentarian

MURRAY, Hon. James (c.1690-1770).

Author

D.W.H.

Volume

Commons 1690-1715

Web Title

MURRAY, Hon. James (c.1690-1770)

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

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