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10th Duke of Atholl: John Murray 1929–2012 11th Duke of Atholl: John Alexander Murray 1939–1980 9th Earl of Dunmore, Viscount of Fincastle, and Lord Murray of Blair, Moulin and Tillimet, 5th Baron Dunmore: Barony Dunmore extinct, 1980: Adam Humphrey Drummond b. 1953 17th Baron Strange, 12th Baron of Megginch: Bruce George Ronald Murray 12th ...
Duke of Atholl, named after Atholl in Scotland, is a title in the Peerage of Scotland held by the head of Clan Murray.It was created by Queen Anne in 1703 for John Murray, 2nd Marquess of Atholl, with a special remainder to the heir male of his father, the 1st Marquess.
John Murray, 1st Duke of Atholl; James Murray, 2nd Duke of Atholl; John Murray, 3rd Duke of Atholl; John Murray, 4th Duke of Atholl; John Murray, 5th Duke of Atholl; George Murray, 6th Duke of Atholl; John Stewart-Murray, 7th Duke of Atholl; John Stewart-Murray, 8th Duke of Atholl; James Stewart-Murray, 9th Duke of Atholl; Iain Murray, 10th ...
The first Duke of Atholl's younger son was Lord George Murray, a Jacobite general who was the architect of the early Jacobite successes of the Jacobite rising of 1745. [3] Most military historians concur that if Lord George Murray had been given the sole command of the Jacobite army that the Old Pretender ( James Francis Edward Stuart ) might ...
The Duke of Atholl, and his game keeper John Crerar. (Edwin Henry Landseer) Murray was the eldest son of John Murray, 3rd Duke of Atholl, and his wife, Charlotte, 8th Baroness Strange, daughter of James Murray, 2nd Duke of Atholl. His parents were first cousins. Lord George Murray and Lord Charles Murray-Aynsley were his younger brothers.
Bruce George Ronald Murray, 12th Duke of Atholl OStJ (born 5/6 April 1960), is a South African-born businessman and peer who is the chief of Clan Murray. [1] As Duke of Atholl, he has the right to raise Europe's only legal private army, the Atholl Highlanders, a unique privilege granted to his family by Queen Victoria after visiting Blair Atholl in 1844.
For some time negotiations had been in progress with the British government for the revestment of the suzerainty back to the British crown; and in an act of parliament, the Isle of Man Purchase Act 1765, was passed to give effect to a contract between the lords of the Treasury and the Duke and Duchess of Atholl for the purchase of the ...
He was created 1st Earl of Tullibardine by William III in 1696 and was created the 1st Duke of Atholl by Queen Anne in 1703.. Lord Murray was a supporter of King William III during the Glorious Revolution, taking the oath of loyalty in September 1689, but was unable to prevent some of his clan from joining Lord Dundee under the command of his father's baillie, Stewart of Ballechin. [2]