John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore PC (1730 – 25 February 1809) was a Scottish peer, military officer, and colonial administrator in the Thirteen Colonies...
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Earl of Dunmore is a title in the Peerage of Scotland. The title Earl of Dunmore was created in 1686 for Lord Charles Murray, son of John Murray, 1st Marquess...
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eldest son of John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore, and Lady Charlotte (née Stewart). Among his siblings were Lady Catherine Murray (wife of MP Hon. Edward...
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Dunmore's Proclamation is a historical document signed on November 7, 1775, by John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore, royal governor of the British colony of...
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Augusta Emma Wilde, Baroness Truro (category Daughters of British dukes)
daughter of Prince Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex and Lady Augusta Murray. Her mother was the second daughter of John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore and Lady...
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father was John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore and her mother was Lady Charlotte Stewart, a younger daughter of Alexander Stewart, 6th Earl of Galloway. Lady...
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during the conflict was John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore, who in May 1774, asked the House of Burgesses to declare a state of war with the Indians and...
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Alexander Edward Murray, 8th Earl of Dunmore VC DSO MVO DL (22 April 1871 – 29 January 1962), known by the courtesy title Viscount Fincastle until 1907...
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John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore, active during the American Revolution John Connolly (musician) (born 1968), American musician with Sevendust John Connolly...
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Edward Murray, 6th Earl of Dunmore (1 June 1804 – 15 July 1845) was a British Army officer and peer. He was the son of George Murray, 5th Earl of Dunmore. He...
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Harbour Island, Bahamas (category Districts of the Bahamas)
is Dunmore Town, named after the governor of the Bahamas from 1786 to 1798, John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore, who had a summer residence on Harbour Island...
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Porto Bello (Williamsburg, Virginia) (category Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Virginia)
hunting lodge of the last Royal Governor of the British Colony of Virginia, John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore. The name commemorates the battle of Porto Bello...
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built into this wall in 1761 by John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore. The hothouse, which was located in the ground floor of the building, was used, among other...
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struggle for control of the colony's military supplies. Under orders from John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore, the royal governor of Virginia, British troops...
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Murray, 1st Duke of Atholl Arms of the 2nd to 4th Dukes of Atholl Arms of the 7th to 9th Dukes of Atholl Clan Murray Murray (surname) Earl of Dunmore...
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John Murray, 1st Duke of Atholl (1660–1724), Scottish nobleman and politician John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore (1730–1809), colonial governor of Virginia...
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Charles Murray, 1st Earl of Dunmore PC (24 February 1661 – 19 April 1710) was a British peer, previously Lord Charles Murray. Lord Charles Murray was born...
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Massachusetts Bay with the Battles of Lexington and Concord. John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore, the royal governor of Virginia, had dismissed the colonial...
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1818), wife of John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore. Lady Charlotte was the daughter of Alexander Stewart, 6th Earl of Galloway, and the mother of Lady Augusta...
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House of Burgesses adopted resolutions in support of the Boston colonists which resulted in Virginia's royal governor, John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore, dissolving...
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of Newfoundland from 1895 to 1898 James Murray (British Army officer, born 1721), governed Quebec from 1760 to 1766 John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore (1730–1809)...
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Pineapple (redirect from History of pineapple)
John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore, built a hothouse on his estate surmounted by a huge stone cupola 14 metres tall in the shape of the fruit; it is known...
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Peyton Randolph (category Speakers of the Virginia House of Burgesses)
chaired the Virginia committee of correspondence. The next governor, John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore, also dissolved the House of Burgesses in 1774 when it...
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struggle for control of the colony's military supplies. Under orders from John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore, the royal governor of Virginia, British marines...
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daughter of Alexander Stewart, 6th Earl of Galloway) and John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore, the former colonial governor of the Province of New York and...
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American Dream (category Culture of the United States)
colonial mystique regarding frontier life. As John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore, the colonial Governor of Virginia, noted in 1774, the Americans "for ever...
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Shenandoah County, Virginia (redirect from Dunmore County, Virginia)
1772 as 'Dunmore County' for Virginia Colonial Governor John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore. Woodstock was designated the county seat. Dunmore was Virginia's...
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Governor (1786–1787) John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore, Governor (1787–1796) Robert Hunt, Acting Governor (1796–1797) John Forbes, Lieutenant governor (1797)...
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youngest daughter of John Cochrane, 4th Earl of Dundonald and Lady Anne Murray (second daughter of Charles Murray, 1st Earl of Dunmore). They had nine surviving...
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Governor John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore (1771–June 1775) Virginia Virginia Company of London Virginia Colony List of governors of Virginia Bruce, Philip...
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