William David Murray, 5th Earl of Mansfield, 4th Earl of Mansfield, PC (20 July 1860 – 29 April 1906) was a British peer. The son of William David Murray, Viscount Stormont, Mansfield succeeded to the family

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on the death of his grandfather,

William Murray, 4th Earl of Mansfield William David Murray, 4th Earl of Mansfield, 3rd Earl of Mansfield, KT, DL (21 February 1806 – 1 August 1898) was a British Conservative politician. The son of David William Murray, 3rd Earl of Mansfield, and Frederica Markham, daughter of ...

, in 1898. He served in the

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, retiring in 1894 with the rank of

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. He chaired several parliamentary committees. A friend of King

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, he was sworn of the

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in 1905. He died unmarried in 1906 and was succeeded by his brother

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References

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