James Murray, Earl of Dunbar (c. 1690–1770) was a Jacobite. Year 1770 ( MDCCLXX) was a Common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year starting on Friday

Family

He was the second child of David Murray, 5th Viscount of Stormont and Majory Scott. David Murray 5th Viscount of Stormont (1665 – 19 November 1731) was a Scottish peer His brothers included David Murray, 6th Viscount of Stormont and the First Earl of Mansfield. David Murray 6th Viscount of Stormont (c 1690 - 23 July 1748) was a Scottish peer succeeding to the Viscountcy of Stormont on his father William Murray 1st Earl of Mansfield PC ( 2 March 1705 &ndash 20 March 1793) was a British Judge and Politician

Life

His father's family was Protestant but Jacobite in its politics, and James was no exception. Jacobitism was (and to a limited extent remains the political movement dedicated to the restoration of the Stuart kings to the thrones of England, Scotland From 1711 to 1713 he was Member of Parliament for Dumfriesshire but, apparently mixed up in some of the plots of the time, he later went to join the court of the exiled Stuarts. A Member of Parliament, or MP, is a representative elected by the voters to a Parliament. Dumfriesshire was a County constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1708 until 2005 He was reportedly both ambitious and a holder of grudges. ^[1]

In 1719 James Murray turned the Jacobite court in Rome into (in Maurice Bruce's words) "a hotbed of intrigue" and, during the subsequent imprisonment of his enemy the Earl of Mar in Geneva from May 1719 to June 1720, he served as Secretary of State to James Francis Edward Stuart, the "Old Pretender", but gained enemies in the Jacobite court (including Mar) and was sent away from Rome in 1720. John Erskine 22nd and de jure 6th Earl of Mar, KT (1675 - May 1732 Scottish Jacobite, was the eldest son of the 21st Earl of Mar Geneva (Genève is the second-most populous city in Switzerland (after Zürich) and is the most populous city of Romandy (the French -speaking Secretary of State is a commonly used title for a Government Official. Prince James Prince of Wales (James Francis Edward Stuart " The Old Pretender " or " The Old Chevalier " 10 June 1688 – 1 January 1766 was the Rome ( Roma ˈroma Roma is the capital city of Italy and Lazio, and is Italy's largest and most populous city with more than 2 Year 1720 ( MDCCXX) was a Leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Leap year starting Nevertheless, he never wholly lost favour with the Pretender, who created him Earl of Dunbar in 1721 and Governor and tutor to the Prince of Wales sometime in 1726, confirming it on June 4, 1727. The title Earl of Dunbar, also called Earl of Lothian or Earl of March, was a the head of a comital lordship in south-eastern Scotland between the early Year 1721 ( MDCCXXI) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a For the US politician see Charles E Stuart For "Betty Burke" see The 'Forty-Five' below Year 1726 ( MDCCXXVI) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Events 781 BC - The first historic Solar eclipse is recorded in China. Year 1727 ( MDCCXXVII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common ^[2][3] At the same time John Hay of Cromlix was made secretary of state, and his wife Marjorie (James Murray's sister) made Charles' governess (though the Hays resigned their posts in 1727). John Hay of Cromlix (1691–1740 was the Jacobite Duke of Inverness and a courtier and army officer to the ' Old Pretender '

Murray and Bishop Atterbury co-operated in Mar's final fall from Jacobite favour in 1724 and, though he and Atterbury came into conflict between 1725 and 1728, the quarrel was soon patched up. Francis Atterbury ( March 6 1663 &ndash February 22 1732) was an English Man of letters, Politician and In 1747 James Murray retired to Avignon, where there was a significant community of Jacobites, living there until his death. Year 1747 ( MDCCXLVII) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Avignon (/aviɲɔ̃/ in French) ( Provençal: Avinhon in classical norm or Avignoun in Mistralian norm is a commune ^[4]

Murray's daughter Mary Murray married Colonel Ligonier or Ligunier, and their daughter Frances married a Colonel Thomas Balfour. ^[5]

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