David William Murray, 3rd Earl of Mansfield, KT (7 March 1777 – 18 February 1840) was a British army officer and peer. Mansfield served as Lord Lieutenant of Clackmannanshire from 1803 until his death.

Family

David William Murray was born in Paris in 1777 to David Murray, then 7th Viscount Stormont, and Louisa, daughter of Charles Cathcart, 9th Lord Cathcart. In 1792 Murray's father succeeded to his uncle William Murray's 1792 creation of the Mansfield earldom; Murray himself succeeded in 1796, inheriting

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in Camden, London. On 16 September 1797 Mansfield married Frederica, daughter of William Markham, Archbishop of York. They had nine children: # Lady Frederica Louisa Murray (1800–1823), married

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in 1823 and had issue # Lady Elizabeth Anne Murray (born 1803), unmarried # Lady Caroline Murray (born 1805), unmarried #

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(1806–1898), who succeeded as 4th Earl of Mansfield and married Louisa, third daughter of Cutbbert Ellison, in 1829 and had issue # Lady Georgina Catherine Murray (born 1807) # Honourable Charles John Murray (born 1810), married Frances Elizabeth, second surviving daughter of

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in 1835 # Honourable David Henry Murray (born 1811), Captain in the Scots Fusilier Guards # Lady Cecilia Sarah Murray (1814–1830) # Lady Emily Murray (1816–1902), married Francis Seymour, later 5th Marquess of Hertford, in 1839 and had issue

Education and career

He received a degree,

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, from

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in 1793. He joined the

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, becoming

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of the East Middlesex Militia in 1798, transferring to the Royal Perth Militia on 3 May 1803. Mansfield served as Lord Lieutenant of Clackmannanshire from 1803 until his death. In 1835 Mansfield was elected a Knight of the

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. He was also a Fellow of the

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(elected 1802) and a Fellow of the

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. Mansfield died at Leamington on 18 February 1840 and is buried in St Andrew's Churchyard, Kingsbury,

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