Charles Murray, 1st Earl of Dunmore

Charles Murray, 1st Earl of Dunmore

Charles Murray, 1st Earl of Dunmore (1661–1710) was a British peer, previously Lord Charles Murray.

The second son of John Murray, 1st Marquess of Atholl, he rose to become a general in the British Army and was created Earl of Dunmore, Lord Murray of Blair, Moulin and Tillimet (or Tullimet) and Viscount of Fincastle, all in the Peerage of Scotland, in 1686.

Dunmore sat in the House of Lords as a Scottish Representative Peer from 1713 to 1715 and from 1727 to 1752.

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