George Murray, 5th Earl of Dunmore

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 paternal grandparents were William Murray, 3rd Earl of Dunmore (a nephew of the 2nd Earl of Dunmore) and Catherine Nairne. His father joined the ill-fated Rising of "Bonnie Prince Charlie" and was appointed as a page to Prince Charles.{{cite book |page=20 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=V3qz3CccKc0C&pg=PP20 |title=Dunmore's New World: The Extraordinary Life of a Royal Governor in Revolutionary America--with Jacobites, Counterfeiters, Land Schemes, Shipwrecks, Scalping, Indian Politics, Runaway Slaves, and Two Illegal Royal Weddings |author=James Corbett David |publisher=University of Virginia Press |year=2013|isbn = 9780813934259}} His maternal grandparents were Alexander Stewart, 6th Earl of Galloway and Lady Catherine Cochrane (the youngest daughter of the 4th Earl of Dundonald).

He matriculated at Christ Church, Oxford in 1778.

As Lord Fincastle, a courtesy title afforded to him as the heir to the earldom of Dunmore, he was returned to the House of Commons for Liskeard in 1800, on the interest of Lord Eliot, a seat he held until 1802. He succeeded his father in the earldom in 1809. For his support of the Whigs, he was created Baron Dunmore, of Dunmore in the Forest of Athole in the County of Perth, in the Peerage of the United Kingdom, in 1831 which gave him an automatic seat in the House of Lords.{{cite web |last1=Thorne |first1=R. G. |title=MURRAY, George, Lord Fincastle (1762-1836), of Dunmore Park, nr. Falkirk, Stirling. |url=https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1790-1820/member/murray-george-1762-1836 |website=www.historyofparliamentonline.org |publisher=History of Parliament Online |access-date=20 May 2024}}

He served as Lieutenant of the Middlesex Yeomanry in 1803 and Lieutenant-Colonel of the Haytor Volunteer Infantry, also in 1803.

On 3 August 1803, Lord Dunmore married his first cousin, Lady Susan Hamilton (1774–1846), a daughter of Archibald Hamilton, 9th Duke of Hamilton and Lady Harriet Stewart (a daughter of the 6th Earl of Galloway). Together, they were the parents of:Mosley, Charles, editor. Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, 106th edition, 2 volumes. Crans, Switzerland: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 1999, volume 1, page 1284.

• Alexander Edward Murray, 6th Earl of Dunmore (1804–1845), who married Lady Catherine Herbert, daughter of George Herbert, 11th Earl of Pembroke.
• Hon. Sir Charles Augustus Murray (1806–1895), who became a prominent diplomat who married Elizabeth "Elise" Wadsworth, a daughter of James Wadsworth, of Geneseo, New York, in 1850. After her death in 1851, he married his first cousin, once removed, Hon. Edith Susan Esther FitzPatrick, a daughter of John FitzPatrick, 1st Baron Castletown and Augusta Douglas, in 1862.
• Hon. Henry Anthony Murray (1810–1865), a Rear Admiral in the Royal Navy. Henry's son, Charles Stewart Murray would become a superintendent in Bengal and briefly administrate the South Lushai Hills district.

Lord Dunmore died at Glen Finart in Argyllshire on 11 November 1836, aged 74.{{cite book|title=Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002|date=July 2006|publisher=The Royal Society of Edinburgh|isbn=0-902-198-84-X|url=https://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp2.pdf|access-date=20 October 2017|archive-date=4 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304074135/https://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp2.pdf|url-status=dead}} He and was succeeded in his titles by his eldest son Alexander. Lady Dunmore died in May 1846, aged 71."Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990, {{Page needed |date=February 2013}}

{{Reflist|30em}}

• {{Hansard-contribs | mr-george-murray-1 | the Earl of Dunmore }}
• {{Rayment|date=February 2012}}
• {{Rayment-hc|date=March 2012}}
• [https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person/mp121891/george-murray-5th-earl-of-dunmore George Murray, 5th Earl of Dunmore (1762-1836)] at the National Portrait Gallery, London
• [https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/c/F70003 Murray, George, (1762-1836), 5th Earl of Dunmore] at the National Archives (United Kingdom)

{{S-start}}

{{s-par|gb}}

{{s-bef

| before = John Eliot

| before2 = The Earl of Inchiquin

}}

{{s-ttl

| title = Member of Parliament for Liskeard

| with = John Eliot | years = 1800–1801

}}

{{s-non | reason = Parliament of Great Britain abolished }}

{{s-par|uk}}

{{s-new|parliament}}

{{s-ttl

| title = Member of Parliament for Liskeard

| with = John Eliot

| years = 1801–1802

}}

{{s-aft

| after = John Eliot

| after2 = William Eliot

}}

{{s-reg|sct}}

{{succession box | title=Earl of Dunmore | before= John Murray | after=Alexander Edward Murray | years= 1809–1836 }}

{{s-reg|uk}}

{{s-new | creation}}

{{s-ttl

| title = Baron Dunmore

| years= 1831–1836

}}

{{s-aft | after=Alexander Edward Murray }}

{{S-end}}

{{Authority control}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Dunmore, George Murray, 5th Earl of}}

Dunmore, George Murray, 5th Earl of

Dunmore, George Murray, 5th Earl of

Category:Earls of Dunmore

Category:Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for constituencies in Cornwall

Category:Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for constituencies in Cornwall

Category:UK MPs 1801–1802

Category:UK MPs who inherited peerages

Category:UK MPs who were granted peerages

Category:British MPs 1796–1800

George

Category:Peers of the United Kingdom created by William IV