Lord Dunmore
BIRTH
1730
Perthshire, Scotland
DEATH
February 25, 1809
Kent, England
Governor of the Province of Virginia
1771-1775
FAMILY
FATHER:
William Murray, 3rd Earl of Dunmore
(1696-1756)
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Lord Dunmore, John Murrey
(1730-1809)
John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore was a Scottish peer, military officer, and colonial administrator in the Thirteen Colonies and The Bahamas. He was the last royal governor of Virginia.
HOMES:
MUSEUM
Governor's Palace
300 Palace Green St, Williamsburg, VA 23185
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WIFE
Lady Charlotte Stewart
(1740-1818)
Lady Catherine Murray
(1586-1629)
Leveson Granville Keith Murray
(1770-1835)
Augusta Murray
(1761-1830)
Alexander Murray
(1775-1813)
William Murray
(1763-1773)
John Murray
(1892-?)
Places | Image | Address | GPS | Site |
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Colonial Williamsburg | 101 Visitor Center Dr, Williamsburg, VA 23185 | MUSEUM | ||
Charlton's Coffeehouse | 429 E Duke of Gloucester St, Williamsburg, VA 23185 | MUSEUM | ||
Battle of Great Bridge Marker K-275 | 100 Locks Rd, Chesapeake, VA 23320 | MARKER | ||
Battle of Great Bridge Marker KY-5 | 1775 Historic Way, Chesapeake, VA 23320 | MARKER | ||
Battle of Cricket Hill Marker | 1758 Cricket Hill Rd, Gwynn, VA 23076 | MARKER | ||
Williamsburg Magazine | 103 E Duke of Gloucester St, Williamsburg, VA 23185 | MUSEUM | ||
Fincastle Marker | 151 Botetourt Rd, Fincastle, VA 24090 | MARKER | ||
Glade Hollow Fort Marker | 1157 Fincastle Rd, Lebanon, VA 24266 | MARKER | ||
Audley Paul's Fort Marker | 26480 Lee Hwy, Buchanan, VA 24066 | MARKER | ||
Point Pleasant Camp Marker | 217 4th St, Point Pleasant, WV 25550 | MARKER | ||
Windsor Marker | 19248 Tidewater Trail, Fredericksburg, VA 22408 | MARKER | ||
Laneville Marker | 27060 The Trail, Mattaponi, VA 23110 | MARKER |
DIED:
Kent, England
Feb 25, 1809
Murray was born in Taymouth, Scotland, the eldest son of William Murray, 3rd Earl of Dunmore, by his marriage to Catherine Nairne; he was a nephew of John Murray, 2nd Earl of Dunmore. In 1745, both Murray, then only 15, and his father joined the ill-fated Rising of "Bonnie Prince Charlie" (Charles Edward Stuart). The young Murray was appointed as a page to Prince Charles. The second Earl, his uncle, remained loyal to the Hanoverians.
After the Jacobite Army was defeated at the Battle of Culloden in 1746, William Murray was imprisoned in the Tower of London, and his family was put under house arrest. By 1750, William Murray had received a conditional pardon. John Murray was now aged twenty and joined the British Army.
Dunmore was named governor of New York in 1770. He succeeded to the same position in the colony of Virginia the following year after the death of Norborne Berkeley, 4th Baron Botetourt. As Virginia's governor, Dunmore directed a series of campaigns against the trans-Appalachian Indians, known as Lord Dunmore's War. He is noted for issuing a 1775 document, Dunmore's Proclamation, offering freedom to slaves who fought for the British Crown against Patriot rebels in Virginia. Dunmore fled to New York after the burning of Norfolk in 1776 and later returned to Britain. He was Governor of the Bahamas from 1787 to 1796.