David Murray, 5th Viscount of Stormont (1665 – 19 November 1731) was a Scottish Jacobite peer.

Biography

He was the son of David Murray, 4th Viscount Stormont (died 1668), and Lady Jean Carnegie, daughter of

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and Lady Mary Kerr, daughter of

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In 1689, Stormont was summoned to attend the

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in Edinburgh in the wake of the

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. He failed to attend and was declared a rebel by the

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. Four years later he was fined for failing to attend the

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. Despite subsequently taking an oath of allegiance to Queen Anne, he made little secret of his Jacobite politics. He opposed the

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. Between 1705 and 1707 he was in regular correspondence and contact with Jacobite agents in Scotland and France. In advance of the planned French invasion of Britain in 1708, Stormont received instructions from

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, but he was taken into custody for three months, on suspicion, by the government in Edinburgh. He was arrested again on suspicion during the

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, having hosted the Pretender at Scone Palace for three weeks during the rising. He was described by

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as being "rich, powerful and strongly determined" in the Jacobite interest.

Marriage and issue

On 31 January 1688, he married Marjory Scott (d. 8 April 1746), daughter of David Scott of Scotstarvit (d. 1718). The couple had the following children: # David Murray, 6th Viscount of Stormont (–1748) had issue including David, 7th Viscount Stormont later 2nd Earl of Mansfield #Hon. James Murray (–1770), Jacobite Earl of Dunbar #Hon. John Murray (died young) #

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(1705–1793) #Hon. Catherine Murray (d. 25 November 1754), died unmarried #Hon. Marjory Murray, married Col. John Hay of Cromlix, son of 7th Earl of Kinnoull #Hon. Amelia Murray (d. 8 February 1774), married Sir Alexander Lindsay of Evelick, by whom she was mother to

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and

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. #Hon. Charles Murray, died without children #Hon. Robert Murray, died without children #Hon. Margaret (–18 April 1785), died without children #Hon. Jean Murray (d. 10 August 1758), unmarried #Hon. Nicola Helen Murray (d. 7 November 1777), died without children #Hon. Mary Murray, died unmarried

References

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People of the Jacobite rising of 1715 Scottish Jacobites Viscounts in the Peerage of Scotland