Charles Murray, 7th Earl of Dunmore


Charles Adolphus Murray, 7th Earl of Dunmore VD, styled Viscount Fincastle from birth until 1845, was a Scottish peer and Conservative politician.

Background

Fincastle was the eldest son of Alexander Murray, 6th Earl of Dunmore and his wife, Catherine.
His maternal grandmother was the Russian noblewoman Countess Catherine Woronzoff, daughter of the Russian ambassador to St James's, Semyon Romanovich Vorontsov.

Career

In 1874, he was appointed a Lord-in-waiting in Disraeli's government, a post he held until 1880.
In 1875, he was made Lord Lieutenant of Stirlingshire, which he remained until 1885. In 1882 he was appointed Lieutenant-Colonel of the 1st Inverness-shire Rifle Volunteers.
He retired in 1896.
In 1892–93 he traveled through the eastern Pamirs to Kashgar.
He was engaged in some form of diplomacy or espionage but the matter is not clear.

Family

Lord Dunmore married Lady Gertrude Coke, third daughter of Thomas Coke, 2nd Earl of Leicester, on 5 April 1866. They had six children: