Regency Personalities Series-David William Murray 3rd Earl of Mansfield
Regency Personalities Series
In my attempts to provide us with the details of the Regency, today I continue with one of the many period notables.
David William Murray 3rd Earl of Mansfield
5 February 1770 – 22 December 1815
David William Murray
David William Murray 3rd Earl of Mansfield was born in Paris in 1777 to David Murray, then 7th Viscount Stormont, and Louisa, daughter of Charles Cathcart, 9th Lord Cathcart. In 1792 Murray’s father succeeded to his uncle William Murray’s 1792 creation of the Mansfield earldom; David William himself succeeded in 1796.
On 16 September 1797 Mansfield married Frederica, daughter of William Markham, Archbishop of York. They had nine children:
Lady Frederica Louisa Murray (1800–1823), married James Hamilton Stanhope in 1823 and had issue
Lady Elizabeth Anne Murray (born 1803), unmarried
Lady Caroline Murray (born 1805), unmarried
William David (1806–1898), who succeeded as 4th Earl of Mansfield and married Louisa, third daughter of Cutbbert Ellison, in 1829 and had issue
Lady Georgina Catherine Murray (born 1807)
Honourable Charles John Murray (born 1810), married Frances Elizabeth, second surviving daughter of Thomas Anson, 1st Viscount Anson in 1835
Honourable David Henry Murray (born 1811), Captain in the Scots Fusilier Guards
Lady Cecilia Sarah Murray (1814–1830)
Lady Emily Murray (1816-1902), married Francis Seymour, later 5th Marquess of Hertford, in 1839 and had issue
He received a degree, Doctor of Civil Law, from Christ Church, Oxford in 1793. He joined the army, becoming a colonel in the Eastern Regiment of the Middlesex Militia in 1798 and the Perthshire Regiment of the North British Militia in 1803.
Mansfield served as Lord Lieutenant of Clackmannanshire from 1803 until his death.
In 1835 Mansfield was elected a Knight of the Order of the Thistle. He was also a Fellow of the Royal Society (elected 1802) and a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London.
Mansfield died at Leamington on 18 February 1840. He is buried in St Andrew’s Churchyard, Kingsbury, London
