Bruce Murray, 12th Duke of Atholl

The elder son of John Murray, 11th Duke of Atholl, and Margaret Yvonne ({{nee}} Leach), now styled the Dowager Duchess of Atholl,[http://www.hull.ac.uk/php/cssbct/cgi-bin/gedlkup.php/n=royal?royal34498 Information on Murray, Bruce George Ronald] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304113436/http://www.hull.ac.uk/php/cssbct/cgi-bin/gedlkup.php/n=royal?royal34498 |date=4 March 2016 }} – website Royal Genealogy Page of the Department of Computer Science, University of HullCharles Mosley, editor, Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, 106th edition, 2 volumes (Crans, Switzerland: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 1999), volume 1, page 133. graduated from Jeppe High School for Boys, Johannesburg, in 1979. He was educated at Saasveld Forestry College before serving his two years' National Service with the South African Infantry Corps. He is currently a volunteer member of the Transvaal Scottish Regiment, holding the rank of lieutenant. Previously, he managed a tea plantation, but then ran a signage business producing signs for commercial buildings.[http://www.archaeologysa.co.za/images/uploads/vol_17_no_1_1.pdf KAOXA'S SHELTER, THE DIGGING STICK, Volume 17, No 1 ISSN 1013-7521 April 2000, Acknowledgements] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121115102724/http://www.archaeologysa.co.za/images/uploads/vol_17_no_1_1.pdf |date=15 November 2012 }} – website of the South African Archaeological Society[http://www.zoutnet.co.za/details/16-09-2011/local_marquis_presents_colours_to_her_majesty/9471 Local Marquess presents colours to Her Majesty – www.zoutnet.co.za] He was commissioned into the Atholl Highlanders in 2000,[http://www.clanmurray.org/septs.html#Highlanders Clan & Septs] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100123194358/http://www.clanmurray.org/septs.html#Highlanders |date=23 January 2010 }} – website of the Clan Murray Society being appointed as lieutenant colonel.[http://athol250.org/events/highlanders-visit-529-67/ Highlander’s Visit (5/29 – 6/7)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120530230021/http://athol250.org/events/highlanders-visit-529-67/ |date=30 May 2012 }} – website of the Atholl 250th Anniversary Committee Upon the death of his father on 15 May 2012, he succeeded to all his father's titles, becoming the 12th Duke of Atholl.[http://www.thecourier.co.uk/News/Perthshire/article/22799/john-murray-the-11th-duke-of-atholl-dies-in-south-africa.html John Murray, the 11th Duke of Atholl, dies in South Africa] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120520180929/http://www.thecourier.co.uk/News/Perthshire/article/22799/john-murray-the-11th-duke-of-atholl-dies-in-south-africa.html |date=20 May 2012 }} – website of The Courier

The Duke first married on 4 February 1984, in Johannesburg, to Lynne Elizabeth Andrew (born Johannesburg, 7 June 1963), daughter of Nicholas George Andrew of Bedfordview, South Africa (born Brighton, East Sussex, June 1939), and wife Evelyn Donne de Villiers, and they divorced in 2003. Together they had two sons and one daughter:[http://www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk/online/content/Atholl1703.htm Dukes of Atholl] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141226184729/http://www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk/online/content/atholl1703.htm |date=26 December 2014 }} – website of Cracroft's PeerageBurke's Peerage and Baronetage{{cite web|url=http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/d/u/p/Amanda-M-Du-plessis/WEBSITE-0001/UHP-0011.html |title=Amanda-M-Du-plessis – User Trees – Genealogy.com |publisher=Familytreemaker.genealogy.com |date=1944-02-12 |access-date=2017-02-19}}{{cite web|url=http://www.southafricansettlers.com/ |title=South African Settlers |publisher=South African Settlers |access-date=2017-02-19}}

He married secondly Charmaine Myrna du Toit in 2009, without issue.

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• "Burke's Peerage and Baronetage"
• http://www.van-gool.info/Leach.htm {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101025030047/http://www.van-gool.info/Leach.htm |date=25 October 2010 }}
• http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/d/u/p/Amanda-M-Du-plessis/WEBSITE-0001/UHP-0011.html
• http://www.southafricansettlers.com/

• [https://web.archive.org/web/20071031141026/http://clanmurray.org/history.html Profile], clanmurray.org
• [http://www.burkespeerage.com/ Profile], burkespeerage.com
• [http://www.geni.com/people/Bruce-Murray/6000000006890631876 Bruce Murray, 12th Duke of Atholl]

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