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David Murray, 2nd Earl of Mansfield

David Murray, 2nd Earl of Mansfield, 7th Viscount of Stormont, KT, PC (9 October 1727 – 1 September 1796) known as the (7th) Viscount of Stormont from 1748 to 1793, was a British diplomat and politician. He succeeded to both the Mansfield and Stormont lines of the Murray family, inheriting two titles and two fortunes.

The Earl of Mansfield

George III

George III

David Murray

9 October 1727

1 September 1796(1796-09-01) (aged 68)

Comtesse Henrietta Frederica von Bünau
(m. 1759; died 1766)
(m. 1776)

Politician

Background[edit]

Mansfield was the son of David Murray, 6th Viscount of Stormont, and his wife, Anne Stewart. The Lord Chief Justice, William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield, was his paternal uncle and mentor. Stormont inherited the family's estate and title of Viscount Stormont at 21 when his father died in 1748. The ancestral seat of the Viscounts Stormont is Scone Palace.

(18 May 1760 – 1 June 1825); married George Finch-Hatton of Eastwell in 1785 and had issue, including George William Finch-Hatton, 10th Earl of Winchilsea.

Lady Elizabeth Murray

Hon. Henrietta Anne Murray (16 October 1764, – circa 1765, Vienna)

Dresden

Lord Stormont, as he was known at the time, married his wife on 16 August 1759, whilst he was British ambassador to Saxony. She was Countess Henrietta Frederica von Bünau daughter of Count Heinrich von Bünau. They had two daughters:


Henrietta died on 10 March 1766 in Vienna. A decade later, on 5 May 1776, Stormont married secondly The Hon. Louisa Cathcart, daughter of Charles Cathcart, 9th Lord Cathcart and Jane Hamilton. Louisa was his junior by 30 years, she was also the niece of Sir William Hamilton, and they had five children:


His second wife once said that she had never seen a good portrait of her husband, "the drawing of me, which had many faults, you shall have a resemblance of me in some shape or the other, but as for Lord Stormont I shall not consent, for I never saw a good likeness of him".[10]

Peter Hudson played Lord Stormont in BBC TV series .[17]

Marie Antoinette (2022)

portrayed Lord Stormont in Apple TV+ miniseries Franklin (2024).[18]

John Hollingworth

William Eden, 1st Baron Auckland

Jean-Charles-Pierre Lenoir

Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990,

Tugdual de Langlais, L'armateur préféré de Beaumarchais Jean Peltier Dudoyer, de Nantes à l'Isle de France, Éd. Coiffard, 2015, 340 p. ( 9782919339280).

ISBN

Leigh Rayment's Peerage Pages

Stacy Schiff (2005). A Great Improvisation. New York: Henry Holt and Company.  9780805066333.

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