William Murray, 7th Earl of Mansfield

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William David Mungo James Murray, 7th Earl of Mansfield DL , JP ( July 7, 1930 - October 21, 2015 at Logie House, Logiealmond , Perthshire ) was a British peer and politician ( Conservative Party ).

life and career

He was the only son of Mungo Murray, 6th Earl of Mansfield (1900–1971) and his wife Dorothea Helena Carnegie (1906–1985), the younger daughter of Sir Lancelot Carnegie . Until 1971 he carried the courtesy title of Lord Scone .

He attended Eton College in Berkshire . He did his military service with the Scots Guards , where he was promoted to lieutenant . Between 1949 and 1950 he was involved in the political unrest in Malaysia (Malaya Emergency) in the military. He studied law at Christ Church College of Oxford University . In 1958 he was admitted to the Inner Temple bar. From 1958 to 1971 he practiced as a barrister , mainly in the field of common law .

On the death of his father on September 2, 1971, he inherited the two titles of 7th and 8th Earl of Mansfield in the Peerage of Great Britain (1776/1792) and the associated subordinate title 13th Baron Scone ( Peerage of Scotland ; 1604 / 05), 13th Viscount Stormont (Peerage of Scotland; 1621), 11th Baron Balvaird (Peerage of Scotland; 1641) and the titular claim to the unrecognized Jacobite titles of Earl of Dunbar , Viscount Drumcairn and Baron Halldykes .

From 1972 to 1979 he was Director of General Accident Fire and Life Assurance.

From 1973 to 1975 Murray was a member of the British delegation to the European Parliament and was a Member of Parliament. Under the Margaret Thatcher administration , he was Minister of State in the Scottish Office from 1979 to 1983 and Minister of State in the Northern Ireland Office from 1983 to 1984 . From 1985 to 1996 he was First Crown Estates Commissioner.

1974 Murray Sheriff (Honorary Sheriff) for Perthshire ; In 1975 he became a justice of the peace (JP). In 1980 he became Deputy Lieutenant (DL) for Perth and Kinross .

Murray held a variety of professional, economic, and social roles; he was also involved in charities. He was the first President of the Federation of Hunting Associations of the European Communities (FACE) from 1977 to 1979 . He was also the first president of the Scottish Association for the Care and Resettlement of Offenders .

Membership in the House of Lords

After his father's death in September 1971, Murray inherited the title of Earl of Mansfield and the then associated seat in the House of Lords . He was a formal member of the House of Lords from September 2, 1971. Murray was an active member of the House of Lords. In the Hansard , a total of over 2,800 verbal contributions by him between 1982 and 1988 are documented. He gave his inaugural address on June 26, 1972 in the context of a debate on criminal law and the penal system .

From 1975 to 1979 he was opposition spokesman (Opposition Spokesman) in the House of Lords.

On January 27, 1988, he spoke for the last time in the Scotland: Land and Sea Use debate on transport policy in Scotland .

He was a member of the House of Lords until November 11, 1999. Its membership ended by the House of Lords Act 1999 .

Private

Murray was married. On December 19, 1951, he married Pamela Joan Foster, daughter of Wilfred Neill Foster (CBE) and Millicent Agnes Mary Duckham. The marriage had three children, two sons and a daughter.

Murray died "peacefully" on October 21, 2015 at the age of 85 on his Logie House estate near Logiealmond, Perthshire. The title of Earl of Mansfield went to his eldest son, Alexander David Mungo Murray (* 1956).

The funeral, funeral service and funeral service took place on October 30, 2015 at St John's Kirk in Perth and then at Scone Palace.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Michael Rhodes: The Earl of Mansfield & Mansfield 1930-2015 death report at Peerage News from October 23, 2015 (English). Retrieved October 24, 2015.
  2. ↑ a b c d e f Earl of Mansfield dies peacefully at Logie House, Logiealmond. Hey what 85th ; Obituary in: Daily Record, October 23, 2015. Retrieved October 24, 2015
  3. ↑ a b c d William David Mungo James Murray, 7th / 8th Earl of Mansfield on thepeerage.com , accessed September 18, 2016.
  4. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from September 7, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.face.eu
  5. ↑ http://scone-palace.co.uk/palace-grounds/rich-scottish-history
  6. ↑ CRIMINAL JUSTICE BILL Text of the speech of June 26, 1972
  7. ↑ Scotland: Land and Sea Use Text of the speech of January 27, 1988
predecessor Office successor
Mungo Murray Earl of Mansfield
1971-2015 		Alexander Murray
personal data
SURNAME Murray, William, 7th Earl of Mansfield
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Murray, William David Mungo James, 7th Earl of Mansfield (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British peer and politician (Conservative Party)
DATE OF BIRTH July 7, 1930
DATE OF DEATH October 21, 2015
Place of death Logie House, Logiealmond, Perthshire