David William Murray, 3rd Earl of Mansfield

The Right Honourable
The Earl of Mansfield
KT FRS
Portrait of David William Murray, 3rd Earl of Mansfield,wearing peer's fur-trimmed robe
Lord Lieutenant of Clackmannanshire
In office
4 May 1803 – 18 February 1840
Preceded byThe Lord Cathcart
Succeeded byGeorge Abercromby
Personal details
Born
David William Murray

7 March 1777 (1777-03-07)
Paris, France
Died18 February 1840 (1840-02-19) (aged 62)
Leamington, United Kingdom
NationalityBritish
Spouse
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(m. 1797)​
Children9
Parent(s)David Murray, 2nd Earl of Mansfield
Louisa Murray, 2nd Countess of Mansfield

David William Murray, 3rd Earl of Mansfield, KT (7 March 1777 – 18 February 1840) was a British army officer and peer, who served as Lord Lieutenant of Clackmannanshire from 1803 until his death.

Family

David William Murray was born in Paris in 1777 to David Murray, then 7th Viscount Stormont, and Louisa, daughter of Charles Cathcart, 9th Lord Cathcart and Jane Hamilton.[1] In 1792 Murray's father succeeded to his uncle William Murray's 1792 creation of the Mansfield earldom; Murray himself succeeded in 1796, inheriting Kenwood House in Camden, London.[2]

His mother's cousin, Mary Hamilton visited Kenwood and described "little William had written an answer to a letter from his great uncle Lord Mansfield -- the style was easy & the language perfectly good -- no one would imagine this letter to have been written by a boy of 7 years old -- he has very astonishing abilities of comprehension equally surprising for his age."[3]

On 16 September 1797 Mansfield married Frederica, daughter of William Markham, Archbishop of York.[2] William Markham was a close friend of his father, the 2nd Earl of Mansfield. They had nine children:[2][4][5]

  1. Lady Frederica Louisa Murray (1800–1823), married James Hamilton Stanhope in 1823 and had one son, James Stanhope (MP)
  2. Lady Elizabeth Anne Murray (born 1803), unmarried
  3. Lady Caroline Murray (born 1805), unmarried
  4. William David (1806–1898), who succeeded as 4th Earl of Mansfield and married Louisa, third daughter of Cutbbert Ellison, in 1829 and had issue
  5. Lady Georgina Catherine Murray (born 1807)
  6. Honourable Charles John Murray (born 1810), married Frances Elizabeth, second surviving daughter of Thomas Anson, 1st Viscount Anson in 1835
  7. Honourable David Henry Murray (born 1811), Captain in the Scots Fusilier Guards
  8. Lady Cecilia Sarah Murray (1814–1830)
  9. Lady Emily Murray (1816–1902), married Francis Seymour, later 5th Marquess of Hertford, in 1839 and had issue

Education and career

The Three Singles. Caricature of Mansfield, Lord Ellenborough and Lord Brougham by John Doyle, 1838.

He was educated at Westminster School, at Leipzig, Germany and at Christ Church, Oxford. He received a degree, Doctor of Civil Law, from Christ Church, Oxford in 1793.[2][6] He joined the Militia, becoming Colonel of the East Middlesex Militia in 1798,[7] transferring to the Royal Perth Militia on 3 May 1803.[8]

Mansfield served as Lord Lieutenant of Clackmannanshire from 1803 until his death.[9][10]

When his eldest daughter Frederica died in 1823, Mansfield took his greatly afflicted and depressed son in law to live at Kenwood, but he never recovered and died in 1825, the jury gave a verdict of "temporary insanity".

In 1835 Mansfield was elected a Knight of the Order of the Thistle.[11] He was also a Fellow of the Royal Society (elected 1802)[12] and a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London.[2]

Mansfield died at Leamington on 18 February 1840[2] and is buried in St Andrew's Churchyard, Kingsbury, London.[13]

References

  1. ^ 1
  2. ^ a b c d e f Urban, Sylvanus (1840). The Gentleman's Magazine. Vol. 167. London: J. B. Nichols and Son. p. 428.
  3. ^ "The Mary Hamilton Papers : Diary of Mary Hamilton (17 February 1784 - 20 March 1784)". Manchester Digital Collections. Retrieved 31 December 2023.
  4. ^ Debrett's Peerage of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Vol. 1. London: G. Woodfall. 1831. p. 211.
  5. ^ "Portrait of Archbishop of York , William Markham 1719 – 1807 | Artware Fine Art". www.artwarefineart.com. Retrieved 10 November 2023.
  6. ^ "| British Armorial Bindings". armorial.library.utoronto.ca. Retrieved 31 December 2023.
  7. ^ "No. 15048". The London Gazette. 17 August 1798. p. 741.
  8. ^ "No. 15580". The London Gazette. 30 April 1803. p. 513.
  9. ^ "No. 15581". The London Gazette. 3 May 1803. p. 521.
  10. ^ "No. 19851". The London Gazette. 28 April 1840. p. 1080.
  11. ^ "No. 19246". The London Gazette. 6 March 1835. p. 413.
  12. ^ "List of Fellows of the Royal Society 1660–2007" (PDF). Royal Society. July 2007. Retrieved 27 December 2014.
  13. ^ The Gentleman's Magazine. E. Cave. 1840.

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Honorary titles
Preceded by Lord Lieutenant of Clackmannanshire
1803–1840 		Succeeded by
Peerage of Great Britain
Preceded by Earl of Mansfield
2nd creation
1796–1840 		Succeeded by