Social Victorians/People/Murray

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Also Known As[edit | edit source]

  • Family name: Murray or Graham Murray
  • The Duke of Atholl is the chief of Clan Murray, and their surname is Murray or Stewart-Murray.
  • Baron Dunedin
    • Andrew Graham Murray, 1st Baron Dunedin (9 March 1905 – 21 August 1942)[1]
  • Viscount Dunedin
    • Andrew Graham Murray, 1st Viscount Dunedin (17 February 1926 – 21 August 1942)[1]

Acquaintances, Friends and Enemies[edit | edit source]

Organizations[edit | edit source]

Timeline[edit | edit source]

1874 October 1, Andrew Graham Murray and Mary Clementina Edmonstone married.[2]

1895 November 30, a Miss Graham Murray was bridesmaid, with Muriel Wilson, Miss Gathorne Hardy, Miss Flo Farquharson, Miss Dudley Ward, Miss Flo Farquharson, Miss Lutzow, and Miss Millicent James at the wedding of Miss Ida Forbes to Sir Archibald Edmonstone, of Duntreath (details in 1895).[3]

1897 July 2, Friday, Mrs. Graham Murray attended the Duchess of Devonshire's fancy-dress ball.

Colored drawing of a 19th-century man in knickers, waistcoat, jacket, knee socks and a tie, with a small red flower in his button hole and his hands in his pockets, facing 3/4 to his right
"Lord Advocate" — Andrew Graham Murray — by "Spy," Vanity Fair, 22 October 1896

Costume at the Duchess of Devonshire's 2 July 1897 Fancy-dress Ball[edit | edit source]

At the Duchess of Devonshire's fancy-dress ball, Mary Graham Murray (at 687) was dressed as Titania in a "cloud-like dress of white satin covered with white embroidered gauze; train of blue chiffon spangled with stars and lilies."[4]

Andrew Graham Murray is not mentioned in any of the newspaper reports, so he may not have attended the ball, or he may not have been noticed by reporters or reporters' informants. His caricature (right) in the 22 October 1896 issue of Vanity Fair, as Number 680 of the magazine's "Statesmen" series,[5] gives an indication of how he looked.

Demographics[edit | edit source]

  • Nationality: Scottish[6]
  • Residences: 7 Rothesay Terrace, "in Edinburgh's fashionable West End"[6] (in 1900)

Residences[edit | edit source]

Family[edit | edit source]

  • Andrew Graham Murray, 1st Viscount Dunedin (21 November 1849 – 21 August 1942)[1]
  • Mary Clementina Edmonstone (1857 – 2 December 1922)[2]
    1. Hon. Gladys Esme Murray ()
    2. Hon. Marjorie Graham-Murray ( – 24 Dec 1967)
    3. Major Hon. Ronald Thomas Graham Murray (1 Aug 1875 – 24 Sep 1934)

Notes and Questions[edit | edit source]

  1. Mary Graham Murray was present at the ball: where was Andrew Graham Murray?

Footnotes[edit | edit source]

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Andrew Graham Murray, 1st Viscount Dunedin." "Person Page". www.thepeerage.com. Retrieved 2021-06-22. https://www.thepeerage.com/p12913.htm#i129124.
  2. 2.0 2.1 "Mary Clementina Edmonstone." "Person Page". www.thepeerage.com. Retrieved 2021-06-22. https://www.thepeerage.com/p18041.htm#i180407.
  3. "A Forthcoming Scotch Marriage." Aberdeen Journal 30 November 1895, Saturday: 7 [of 8], Col. 7c [of 7]. British Newspaper Archive.
  4. “The Duchess of Devonshire’s Ball.” The Gentlewoman 10 July 1897 Saturday: 32–42 [of 76], Cols. 1a–3c [of 3]. British Newspaper Archive https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0003340/18970710/155/0032.
  5. "List of Vanity Fair (British magazine) caricatures (1895–1899)". Wikipedia. 2024-01-14. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_Vanity_Fair_(British_magazine)_caricatures_(1895%E2%80%931899)&oldid=1195518024.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Vanity_Fair_(British_magazine)_caricatures_(1895%E2%80%931899).
  6. 6.0 6.1 "Andrew Murray, 1st Viscount Dunedin". Wikipedia. 2021-06-08. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Andrew_Murray,_1st_Viscount_Dunedin&oldid=1027534171.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Murray,_1st_Viscount_Dunedin.