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216 MANSFIELD. Stoumont. on the death of his father, 23 July 17IS; Rap. Pkku [S.], from May 1754, till his death in 1796.{ a ) Kuvoy to Warsaw, 1756-61; P.G., 1768 ; Ambassador to Vienna, 1763-72 ; K.T.. :i0 Nov. 1768; Ambassador tu ParU,( b ) 1 772-7S : Lord Justice Gen. [S.]. 177S-94 : Sec. of State for the South, 1779-82 ; Lord Prcsid.ut of the Council, April to Dec. 17S3, and again, Dec. 1791 till his death in 1 7<ii* ; sue. to the peerage, [G.B.] iu 1793, as Haul OK Mansfield as abovestated ; D.C.L., of Oxford, 3 July 1793; Chancellor of Marischal College, Aberdeen, 1793; Joint Chief Clerk of the Pleas in the court of King's, Bench, &c. He m. firstly, 16 Aug. 1769, at Warsaw, Henrietta Frederiea, (hi. of Henry, Count BCTHaJT, of Saxony, by { — ), da. of Gustavus, Bauon Racnitz. She d. s.p.m. at Vienna, Id March 17ii6. as Viscountess Stoumont, her heart being bur. at Scone. M.I. He m. .secondly. 5 May 1776, at St. Geo. Han. sq., Louisa, who became 20 March 1793. tuo jure, Countess oy Mansfield, co Notting- ham as abovestated. He d. at Brighton 1 and was bur. 9 Sep. 1796, at Westm. Abbey, aged 69. WH1 pr. 1796. See as to his widow (who survived him till 1813), the paragraph next above. III. 1796. o. David William (Murray), Earl of Mansfield, co. Middlesex [17!>2]. also Viscount Stoumont, Arc. [S.], s. and h„ by second wife : b. in Paris, 7 Maieh 1777 ; ed. at Westm- School and at Leipsie ; styled Viscount Stoumont, 1793-96 ; mat. at Oxford (Ch. Ch.), 2 June 1794 ; sue. tv the peerage, 1 Sep. 1796; Lieut. 7th Foot, 1798 ; Lord Lieut, of Clackmannanshire, 1803 ; K.T., 4 March 1835 ; F.R.S., F.S.A.. &e. He m„ 16 Sep. 17t»7, at Bishop- thorpe. co. York, Frederiea, da. of the most Rev. William Maiikham, Archbishop of York [1776—1807], by Sarah, da. of John Goddaud, of Cork and Rotterdam. He d. at Leamiugtou, 18 Feb. 1810, aged 62. Will pr. March 1S40. His widow d. 29 April 1860, aged 86, iu Langham place, Marylebone. IV. 1840. J, und J. William David (Murray), Earl of Mans- TTT i o I o field, co. Middlesex [17921 also Viscount Stoumont, Arc. [S.l s. and ill. 104,5. h h Feb. 1S06, iu Portland place, Marylebone ; styled Viscount Stoumont till 1840 ; ed. at Westm. School and at Ch. Ch., Oxford ; mat. 14 April 1S23 ; Lieut. Col. Stirlingshire Militia, 1S2S-35; M.P. for Aldborough, 1830-31 ; for Woodstock, 1S31-32 ; for Norwich, 1S32-37, and for Perthshire, 1837-40 ; a Lord of the Treasury, 1834-35 ; sue. to the peerage (as Earl of Mansfield, co. Middlesex, &c, as above) IS Feb. 1840, and sue. [hy the death of his grandmother abovementioued), 11 July 1848, as Kaul of Mansiielu, co. Nottingham, a dignity of an earlier (1776) creation. K.T., 13 June 1843. Lord High Commissioner to the Church [S.], 1S52, 1S58, and 1859. Lord Lieut, of Clackmannanshire, 1852. He m., 8 April 1S29, at the Chapel Royal (reg. at St. Margaret's, Westm.), Louisa, 3d da. and coheir of Cuthbert Ellison, of Hebburn, co. Durham, by Isabella Grace, da, and coheir of Henry Ibbetson, of St. Anthony's, co. Northumberland. She d. (as Viscountess Stormout) 24 Nov. 1837, at Scone palace. [William David Murray, styled Viscount Stormont, s. and h. up., 6. 22 July 1835, iu Jermyu street, St. James' Westm. ; an officer in theGreu. Guards, 1854-56, serving in the Crimean war; Col. 3d Bn. Royal Highlanders (M) and A.D.C. to the Queen. He m., 6 Aug. 1857, at St. James', Emily Louisa, 1st da. of Sir John Atholl Bannatyue Mac GBEGOB, 3d Bart., by Mary Charlotte, da. of Rear Admiral Sir Thomas Masterman Haudy, Bart.] Family Estates. — These, in 1883, consisted of 31,197 acres in Perthshire, 14,342 iu Dumfriesshire, 1,705 in Clackmannanshire, and 795 in Fifeshire, besides 539 iu ( a ) There being no election between 1790 and 1796. he continued to sit as a Rep. Peer [S.] for three years after he had sue. to an Eaildom of Great Britain. ( b ) He had there " manifested no great vigilance, nor displayed any superior penetration " and it was " commonly believed he had been deceived, previous to the open interference of France in the affairs of America." So says Wraxall (Hist. Memoirs), who adds that " Decorated with the insignia of the order of the Thistle, his person, noble and imposing, presented the appearance of a man of quality ; but his manners, destitute of amenity, still' ami constrained, were uot calculated to ingratiate. His enemies accused him of parsimony."