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The 7th Duke in uniform of colonel of the Atholl Highlanders, c. 1860s Atholl served in the Scots Fusilier Guards , achieving the rank of captain in 1864. The latter year he also succeeded his father in the dukedom.
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 ...
Earl of Atholl (seventh creation), 1404: John Stewart c. 1337 –1406 2nd Earl of Atholl, Earl of Carrick, Later Robert III, King of Scots: Robert Stewart 1340–1420 Duke of Albany, Earl of Atholl: Walter Stewart c. 1360 –1437 Earl of Atholl, Earl of Strathearn, Earl of Caithness: Earldom of Atholl (fourth creation) merged in the crown, 1390
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.
Lady Dorothea Louisa Stewart-Murray was born in 1866 to John Stewart-Murray, 7th Duke of Atholl, and his wife, Louisa Moncrieff (daughter of Sir Thomas Moncreiffe, 7th Baronet). Her family had been the patrons of Niel Gow , the great Scottish fiddler, composer and music publisher, and she grew up with a lifelong interest in, and later became a ...
Lady Evelyn Stewart Murray was born at Blair Castle in Perthshire, Scotland on 17 March 1868, the youngest daughter of John Stewart-Murray, 7th Duke of Atholl, and his wife, Louisa Moncreiffe, daughter of Sir Thomas Moncreiffe, 7th Baronet. [2] [1] [3] Murray received a typical Victorian aristocratic education being tutored by governesses at home.
A third stand of colours was presented in 2006 by the Duchess of Atholl. [8] Murray of Atholl tartan, used in the uniforms of the Atholl Highlanders since 1839. Under John Stewart-Murray, 7th Duke, the regiment regularly provided guards for royal visitors to Blair Castle (which was a convenient stopping point on the journey to Balmoral).
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 ...