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  George Iain Murray, 10th Duke of Atholl - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
George Iain Murray, 10th Duke of Atholl (19 June 1931–27 February 1996), known as 'Wee Iain', attended both Eton College and Oxford University, before succeeding his third cousin to and becoming the 10th Duke of Atholl.
Under his stewardship, the estate in and around Blair Castle became a significant area for forestry, on which he was an acknowledged expert and spoke on many times in the House of Lords, and tourism.
In addition, he resurrected the Atholl Highlanders, the ceremonial private army of the Dukedom.
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 Duke of Atholl   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The Duke's eldest son and heir's courtesy title is Marquess of Tullibardine.
John Murray, 2nd Earl of Atholl (became Marquess of Atholl in 1676) (1631-1703)
John Murray, 2nd Marquess of Atholl (became Duke of Atholl in 1703) (1660-1724)
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 Murray Clan History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The 2nd Earl of Tullibardine married Lady Dorothea Stewart, heiress of the Earls of Atholl in 1629 and Marquises from 1676.
The 1st Duke's younger son Lord George Murray, was the brilliant Jacobite general responsible for the highlander's astonishing successes throughout the greater part of the 1745 uprising.
The new Duke of Atholl is John Murray of South Africa.
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 murraydates
George Halley, in the curious document already quoted, says that "Sir William Murray of Tullibardine having broke Argyll's face with the hilt of his sword, in King James the Sixth's presence, was obliged to leave the kingdom.
Lord Murray, son of John Murray, 2nd Murray Earl of Athole, was one of the commissioners for inquiring into the massacre of Glencoe in 1693.
The 1st Duke's younger son Lord George Murray, was the brilliant Jacobite general of Prince Charles responsible for the highlander's astonishing successes throughout the greater part of the 1745 uprising.
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 George Murray - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
George Murray (bishop), Bishop of Sodor and Man (1814–1827) and Rochester, son of the Bishop of Rochester
Lord George Murray (bishop) (1761–1803), Bishop of Saint David's, grandson of the general
George Murray, 6th Duke of Atholl (1814–1864), Scottish, formed Atholl Highlanders
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 :::► Dictionary of Meaning www.mauspfeil.net ◄:::
Image:Murray of Atholl.jpg thumb100pxThe Atholl Highlanders cap badge and tartan The '''Atholl Highlanders''' is a British regiment.
Today, the Atholl Highlanders is a purely ceremonial regiment, of approximately 125 men, including two bagpipes pipe bands; one of these is resident with the regiment at Blair Atholl, while the other is the Duke of Atholl's 'Unit in the Colonies' and is resident in Stone Mountain, Georgia (U.S. State) Georgia, USA.
It wears the tartan of the Scottish clan Clan Murray of Atholl and has as its cap badge the clan arms approved by the Duke, which it wears along with a sprig of juniper, which is the clan's plant.
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 famous Murrays
Murray was the PRCA/Resistol overall and bareback riding rookie of the year in 1988 and dominated the sport throughout his stellar career with countless cowboy records.
George Iain Murray, 10th Duke of Atholl was one of Scotland's richest landowners, chief of the ancient Murray clan.
George Iain Murray, the 10th Duke of Atholl, known variously as one of Scotland's richest landowners, the chief of the ancient Murray clan, the commander of Britain's only private army and one of the nation's most eligible bachelors, died Tuesday at a hospital in Perth, Scotland.
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 Family history
Sir Walter Murray became Lord of Bothwell and one of the regents of Scotland in 1255, he constructed Bothwell Castle and this was the seat of the chiefs until 1360 when it passed to the Douglases.
The 1st Dukes youngest son was a great Jackobite general during the rising of 1745 and led a charge at Culloden he died in exile in the Netherlands in 1760.
It was in commemoration of the marriage of the Marquess of Atholl with the daughter of the House of Derby that the name of Stanley was given to the well-known village between Perth and Dunkeld.
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 Murrays in Scotland
Sir John became the 1st Earl of Tullibardine in 1606 (The late George Iain Murray, 10th Duke of Atholl was also Marquis of Tullibardine as recognized in Lyon Register as Chief of the Murrays).
The 2nd Earl of Tullibardine married Lady Dorothea Stewart, heiress of the Earls of Atholl in 1629, and became the Duke of Atholl.
Blair Atholl Castle in Perthshire became the Clan seat, which is still maintained by the present Chief, the Duke of Atholl.
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 Clan Campbell Chiefs
The 13th Duke of Argyll is the son of Sir Ian Campbell, 12th Duke of Argyll and Iona Mary Colquhoun, the daughter of Sir Ivar Iain Colquhoun of Luss 8th BT, Chief of Clan Colquhoun.
The Duke of Hamilton (1644) and Brandon (1711): The Chief of Clan Hamilton
The Duke of Atholl (1703): The Chief of Clan Murray
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 Blair Atholl -   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Blair Atholl is a small town in Perth and Kinross, Scotland, built about the confluence of the Rivers Tilt and Garry in one of the few areas of flat land in the midst of the Grampian Mountains.
Atholl, which may mean 'new Ireland', is the name of the surrounding district.
Blair Atholl's most famous feature is Blair Castle (NN865662), one of Scotland's premier stately homes, and the last castle in the British Isles to be besieged, in 1746 during the last Jacobite Rebellion.
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 Articles - Duke of Atholl   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The Duke´s eldest son and heir has the courtesy title of ´´Marquess of Tullibardine´´.
Between 1846 and 1957 the Duke was also ´´Baron Glenlyon´´ in the United Kingdom, enabling him to sit in the House of Lords.
On this barony´s extinction in 1957, the Duke of Atholl had the dubious honour of being the highest ranking peer without a seat in the House of Lords (removed in 1963 when all hereditary peers gained the right to sit in that body).
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 ANCIENT MURRAY GENEALOGY
Lord George Murray; engaged in the rebellion of 1745, was attainted and died.
Francis Henry Murray, born 1820 in Rector of Chislehurst, Kent; died in Cannon of Canterbury.
Iain George Murray; His Grace., the 10th Duke of Atholl, D.L.,M.A., Was educated at Eton, and Christ Church, Oxford.
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 Murray
George Halley, in the curious document quoted above, says that "Sir William Murray of Tullibardine having broke Argyll's face with the hilt of his sword, in King James VI's presence, was obliged to leave the kingdom.
3rd Duke of Atholl, son of George Murray,, fifth son of the first duke, married to Lady Charlotte, Baroness of Strange, Sovereign of the Isle of Man, daughter and heir of the 2nd Duke of Atholl, 1753.
George Edward Murray, son of George Murray, Bishop of Sodor and Man and Rochester, son of Lord George Murray, Bishop of St. David's, son of 3rd Duke.
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 TheStreet.com: Even Blue Bloods Saw Red Ink in Baron Stock Fraud
The duke, whose personal wealth in 1994 was estimated by the British paper The Guardian at 150 million pounds (the equivalent of about $225 million U.S. dollars) -- or just shy of the wealth of the Queen of England that year -- got involved with A.R. Baron through a timeworn technique.
The duke, who was 6 feet 3 inches tall and nicknamed "Wee Iain," died of a stroke at 64 in February 1996.
As for the Duke of Atholl, Petts says she hasn't held out much hope of recouping his losses, particularly since he's deceased.
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 thePeerage.com - George Iain Murray, 10th Duke of Atholl and others
     George Iain Murray, 10th Duke of Atholl was born on 19 June 1931.
She married Field Marshal Sir John Campbell, 2nd Duke of Argyll, son of Sir Archibald Campbell, 1st Duke of Argyll and Elizabeth Tollemache, on 6 June 1717.
A contract for the marriage of Mary Brown and Field Marshal Sir John Campbell, 2nd Duke of Argyll was signed on 30 December 1701.
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 Worldroots.com
Described by the press as living with his mother in a poky flat in London and working as an assistant manager of a printing works in Uxbridge earning œ20 a week when, after the death of his third cousin, he inherited his title at the age of twenty-five.
Even though he was a Duke, he was approachable and shared his detailed knowledge of his family tree.
"Wee Iain", 6ft 4in tall, as Duke of Atholl was the only man in Britain allowed to have his own private army.
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 Encyclopedia: British and Irish History: Biographies
Carew, George, Baron Carew of Clopton and earl of Totnes
Murray, John, 2d marquess and 1st duke of Atholl
Murray, John, 2d earl and 1st marquess of Atholl
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 Duke of Atholl - Encyklopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
George Augustus Frederick John Murray, 6th Duke of Atholl (1814–1864)
John George Stewart-Murray, 8th Duke of Atholl (1871–1942)
George Iain Murray, 10th Duke of Atholl (1931–1996)
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 Murray Clan Society Old Open Forum Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Francis Murray was born in 1841 in Scotland.
Being the son of an Irish-Protestant minister, I assumed McMurray was a sept of the clan Murray.
The Murrays held title to Ballencrieff off and on untill 1507 when John Murray of Blackbarony was given title to build a manor on the his lands of Ballencrieff.This building now very much in ruin still exists.
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 Kristie's Duke Of Atholl Web Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
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 League of Celltic Nations Newsletter for May 2005   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The Morays or Murrays, as they became, were now firmly established as one of the pre-eminent families of Scotland with lands scattered across the country.
As earls, and later, dukes of Atholl, the Murrays were one of the four great magnates of the Highlands.
In later years, the 1st Duke of Atholl was utterly opposed to the Union with England and was imprisoned for his outspokenness as a suspect of treason.
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 Definition of Iain Butler
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 Category:Dukes in the Peerage of Scotland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Pages in category "Dukes in the Peerage of Scotland"
John Douglas Sutherland Campbell, 9th Duke of Argyll
Charles Stewart, 3rd Duke of Richmond, 6th Duke of Lennox
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 Articles - Scottish clan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
With the Restoration of Charles II Episcopalianism became widespread among clans, which suited the hierarchical clan structure and encouraged obedience to Royal authority, some others were converted by missions.
The Ossian poems of James Macpherson in the 1760s suited the Romantic enthusiasm for the ´´"sublime" "primitive"´´ and achieved international success with a disguised elegy for the Jacobite clans, set in the remote past.
Clans or families thought to have had a Chief in the past but not currently recognised by the Lord Lyon are listed at Armigerous clans.
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 King Charles I of England, son of King James I, The Royal Martyr An Egalitarian Narrative Of The Caroline Reality   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Duke Of Atholl, George Iain Murray, of ever blessed memory, whom I also honor and adore.
The work begins by discussing the validity and authenticity of the Anglesey Memorandum which purported to assert that King Charles the Second and the Duke of York did not believe that Charles I was the author of the Eikon Basilike, but that Dr. Gauden was.
The Anglesey Memorandum is examined and found to be suspect in terms of consistency and probative validation from corroborative sources.[33] It should be noted that Arthur Annesley, First Earl of Anglesey, was noted to be a skillful, cautious, and sound lawyer.
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 Fantasy & Science Fiction
Some rubbing of cloth, frontispiece has been loose resulting in some wear to the fore-edge of the plate, cloth somewhat mottled on spine, but in general a bright, very good copy.
This copy differs from that described by George Locke in Spectrum of Fantasy, in that it does not have gilt lettering on the front cover, the top page edges are not gilt, and the edges of the cloth are not bevelled.
Purports to be a translation of a narrative by a 10th Century man. Illustrated.
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