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THE CLAN OF MURRAY.
Badge: Calg-bhealaidh (Butcher's Broom); or Aiteann (Juniper)
lS tartan (sometimes erroneously called Tullibardine), was adopted and worn by
Charles, first Earl of Dunmore, second son of the first Marquis of Athole, and of
Lady Amelia Stanley, by whom the sovereignty of the Isle of Man and the Barony
of Strange caine into the Athole family. He was thus sixth in descent from Mary,
Queen Dowager of France, the beautiful daughter of King Henry VII., through the
and the Cliffords, Earls of Cumberland.
Stanleys, Earls of Derby ;
Lord Charles Murray, when young, became an officer in the Scottish Regular
Forces, and in 1670 was Lieutenant-Colonel of the Royal North British Dragoons,
now known as the Scots Greys ; and upon the death of Sir Thomas Dalziel of Binns,
who raised the regiment, he received the command of it, and was Master of the
Horse to the Princess Anne, afterwards Queen of Great Britain.
Upon the accession of King James II. and VII. to the throne, Lord Charles
Murray was made Master of the Horse to Queen Mary, and on 16th August 1686 he was created Earl
of Dunmore, Viscount Fincastle, and Lord Murray of Blair, Moulin, and Tullymet ; taking his
Earldom from Dunmore in Athole.
At the Revolution he was deprived of all his offices, and retiring led a private life till the death
of William of Orange.
Soon after the accession of Queen Anne, he was made a Lord of the Privy Council in February
1703, and Governor of Blackness Castle in 1707. He died in 1710, and was succeeded by his second,
but eldest surviving son John as second Earl, who commanded the Scots Guards for forty-nine
years. This nobleman dying unmarried in 1752, the title devolved on his brother, William, the
third Earl, who was a staunch adherent to Prince Charles Edward in the '45, and was tried for high
treason at Southark, and was eventually pardoned by George II. ; he died in 1756, and was succeeded
by his son John, the fourth Earl, who was also a Captain in the Scots Guards. In 1761 this Earl
purchased the estate of Elphinstone in Stirlingshire, and rebuilding the house, changed the name to
Dunmore. George, the fifth Earl, married the daughter of the Duke of Hamilton, and had issue,
Alexander, sixth Earl, Captain in the 9th Lancers, and A.D.C. to H.R.H. Adolphus, Duke of
Cambridge ; and his son Charles, seventh Earl, was a Captain in the Scots Guards, and Colonel
commanding the 3rd Battalion Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders, and is well known as a Central
Asian traveller. The family property is the Isle of Harris, Inverness-shire. His son is Viscount
Fincastle, V.C., 16th Lancer*.