The Ultimate Vampire Resource and Directory

oh you will all just LOVE this...it is totally boring and if you print it out you can use it to wipe down the tv or the table or if the paper is soft enough...use your imagination!



Hey - at least he ran away from school once. They had a problem with truancy in the 18th century among nobility in Perthshire it appears!



Ahem...





Murray, Lord George (1694–1760), Jacobite army officer, born on 4 October 1694 at Huntingtower near Perth, was the sixth son of John Murray, first duke of Atholl (1660–1724), and Lady Katherine Hamilton (bap. 1662, d. 1707), eldest daughter of Anne Hamilton, duchess of Hamilton in her own right, and William Hamilton (formerly Douglas), third duke of Hamilton. As a younger son of the duke of Atholl he bore the courtesy title Lord George Murray. On 3 June 1728 he married Amelia (1710–1766), only daughter of James Murray of Glencarse, Mugdrum, and (through his wife) Strowan. They had three sons and two daughters, of whom John Murray became third duke of Atholl, James a major-general, and George Murray vice-admiral of the white; Amelia married the master of Sinclair and, second, Farquharson of Invercauld, while Charlotte died unmarried.

Jacobite rising (1715) and exile

Lord George was educated at Perth grammar school, whence he ran away on at least one occasion. On 16 March 1710 he complained to his father that he had been denied the Candlemas privilege of protecting a boy who was whipped, ‘and strongly urged that on account of the “affront” he might be permitted to leave school’ (DNB). In December 1710 he went up to Glasgow University, but left in 1711 to go ‘to Flanders as ensign of the 1st regiment, the Royals’ (ibid.). Sick at Dunkirk, he gambled and got into debt. On leave in 1715, Lord George was with his father in Atholl. After the earl of Mar raised King James's standard, Lord George, together with two of his brothers, William Murray, then marquess of Tullibardine and later titular second duke of Atholl, and Lord Charles Murray (who, accompanying William Mackintosh of Borlum's brigade south, was taken at Preston), held commands in the Atholl brigade. Tullibardine was the general officer commanding, being promoted major-general in the course of the campaign; the two other Murrays were battalion commanders in a force originally of three and eventually of six battalions. At the time of the battle of Sheriffmuir Lord George was raising cess in Fife, and so was not with the Athollmen on the defeated left wing. Afterwards both Tullibardine and Lord George attempted unsuccessfully to negotiate an indemnity via their father in exchange for their submission to government. This came to nothing, and they escaped to the continent in 1716, sailing from South Uist aboard the Marie Therese. In June that year Lord George was at Avignon, suffering, like many of the exiles, from illness. In 1718 he was living in poverty at Bordeaux, and in the same year ‘a bill for treason was found against him at a court of oyer and terminer held at Cupar’ (ibid.).