David William Murray, 3rd Earl of Mansfield


David William Murray, 3rd Earl of Mansfield, KT was a British army officer and peer. Mansfield served as Lord Lieutenant of Clackmannanshire from 1803 until his death.

Family

David William Murray was born in Paris in 1777 to David Murray, then 7th Viscount Stormont, and Louisa, daughter of Charles Cathcart, 9th Lord Cathcart. In 1792 Murray's father succeeded to his uncle William Murray's 1792 creation of the Mansfield earldom; Murray himself succeeded in 1796, inheriting Kenwood House in Camden, London.
On 16 September 1797 Mansfield married Frederica, daughter of William Markham, Archbishop of York. They had nine children:
  1. Lady Frederica Louisa Murray, married James Hamilton Stanhope in 1823 and had issue
  2. Lady Elizabeth Anne Murray, unmarried
  3. Lady Caroline Murray, unmarried
  4. William David, who succeeded as 4th Earl of Mansfield and married Louisa, third daughter of Cutbbert Ellison, in 1829 and had issue
  5. Lady Georgina Catherine Murray
  6. Honourable Charles John Murray, married Frances Elizabeth, second surviving daughter of Thomas Anson, 1st Viscount Anson in 1835
  7. Honourable David Henry Murray, Captain in the Scots Fusilier Guards
  8. Lady Cecilia Sarah Murray
  9. Lady Emily Murray, married Francis Seymour, later 5th Marquess of Hertford, in 1839 and had issue

    Education and career

He received a degree, Doctor of Civil Law, from Christ Church, Oxford in 1793. He joined the army, becoming a colonel in the East Middlesex Militia in 1798 and the Perthshire Regiment of the North British Militia in 1803.
Mansfield served as Lord Lieutenant of Clackmannanshire from 1803 until his death.
In 1835 Mansfield was elected a Knight of the Order of the Thistle. He was also a Fellow of the Royal Society and a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London.
Mansfield died at Leamington on 18 February 1840 and is buried in St Andrew's Churchyard, Kingsbury, London.