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  Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Earl of Dunmore
The title Earl of Dunmore was granted in 1686 to the Lord Charles Murray, son of John Murray, 1st Marquess of Atholl.
Furthermore, the Earldom is associated with the title Baron Dunmore, created in the Peerage of the United Kingdom in 1831 for the fifth Earl and was held until the death of the ninth Earl in 1980.
The Earl is in distant remainder to the marquisate of Atholl and its subsidiary titles but not the Dukedom and its subsidiary titles.
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 Wikipedia: John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore (1730 – February 25, 1809) was the British governor of the Province of New York from 1770 to 1771 and the Virginia Colony, from September 25, 1771 until his departure to New York on New Years Eve, 1776.
From 1774 on, Dunmore was continually clashing with the Colonial Assembly.
Dunmore County, Virginia, formed in 1772, was named in his honor.
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 Dunmore John Murray 4th Earl of - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Dunmore, John Murray, 4th Earl of (1732-1809), British colonial administrator, born in Scotland.
Bothwell, James Hepburn, 4th Earl of (1536-1578), Scottish nobleman, third husband of Mary, Queen of Scots.
Durham, John George Lambton, 1st Earl of (1792-1840), British statesman, born in London, and educated at Eton.
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 JOHNMURRAY
Scottish nobility, Dunmore became Governor of New York in 1769 and Governor of Murray, John [4th Earl of Dunmore](1730-1809) Governor of Virginia: A member of the Virginia in 1770.
Dunmore dissolved the Virginia Assembly in 1773, after it appointed a committee of correspondence to coordinate action with other colonies against Britain, and in 1774, when it supported Boston in the matter of the Port Act.
Dunmore presided over an assembly to consider the conciliatory proposals of the northern colonies, but rioting forced him to move the seat of government to a warship.
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 John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore
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From 1771 to 1774, he directed a series of campaigns against the Indians known as Lord Dunmore's War[?].
The main target of these attacks were the Shawnee[?], and his purpose was in strengthen Virginia's claims in the west, particularly the Ohio Valley[?].
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 Revolution II
By November 14, 1775, when John Murray, Earl of Dunmore and royal governor of Virginia, issued his proclamation, his plan to offer freedom to slaves who would leave their patriot masters and join the royal forces was already well underway.
Word of Dunmore's plan was known as early as April, when a group of slaves presented themselves to him to volunteer their services.
John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore (1730—February 25, 1809), known as Lord Dunmore, was the British governor of the Province of New York from 1770 to 1771 and the Virginia Colony, from September 25, 1771 until just before the American Revolutionary War began in June 1775.
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 John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
From 1774 on, Dunmore was continually clashing with the Colonial Assembly.
Dunmore County, Virginia, formed in 1772, was named in his honor.
Dunmore Street in Norfolk, Virginia was named for him.
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 John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
John Murray Dunmore (1730 - February 25, 1809) was the British colonial governor of New York ([1770]]-1771) and Virginia (1771-1775).
From 1771 to 1774, he directed a series of campaigns against the Indians known as Lord Dunmore's War.
The main target of these attacks were the Shawnee, and his purpose was in strengthen Virginia's claims in the west, particularly the Ohio Valley.
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 ooBdoo   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore (1730 – February 25, 1809) was the British governor of the Province of New York from 1770 to 1771 and the Virginia Colony, from September 25, 1771 until his departure to New York on New Years Eve, 1776.
He is noted for Lord Dunmore's Proclamation [1], November 7, 1775, whereby he offered freedom to enslaved Africans who joined his Army.
It is said that the naming of Dunmore Street was not to honor the ex-governor, but to celebrate the place in Norfolk where he had last set foot.
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 AllRefer.com - Dunmore, John Murray, 4th earl of (U.S. History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Dunmore, John Murray, 4th earl of, U.S. History, Biographies
Dunmore, John Murray, 4th earl of 1732–1809, British colonial governor of Virginia, a Scottish peer.
When the news of Lexington and Concord reached Virginia, Dunmore, who twice before had dissolved the house of burgesses for its procolonist stand, removed the colony's gunpowder stores to a man-of-war.
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 John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore Summary
John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore (1732-1809), was the British colonial governor of Virginia during the dramatic years preceding the American Revolution.
John Murray, descended from the French line of Stuarts, succeeded to his father's title in 1765.
Lord Dunmore was appointed governor of New York in 1770 by Lord Hillsborough, British secretary of state for the Colonies.
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 Lord Dunmore   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore had been the British Governor of New York from 1770 until 1771.
Eventually Dunmore felt threatened by the growing resentment and civil unrest in the colonies and fled to safety in Williamsburg where he took refuge on the HMS Fowey on June 8, 1775.
Dunmore not only planned for civil unrest, but anticipated that many colonists would abandon the Continental Army and return home to protect their property.
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 Lord Dunmore xmpg.org   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore (1730 – February 25, 1809) was the Great Britain governor of the Province of New York from 1770 to 1771 and the Virginia Colony, from September 25, 1771 until just before the American Revolutionary War began in June 1775.
From 1774 on, Dunmore was continually clashing with the Vrgins General Assembly.
It is said that the naming of Dunmore Street was not to honor the governor, but to celebrate the place in Norfolk where he last set foot.
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 Earls of Galloway
Son of the third earl, he was born in January of 1660 and died, unmarried in 1694.
She died on December of 1757 and was the daughter of Alexander Seton Montgomerie, 9th Earl of Eglinton.
She was the daughter of John Cochrane, 4th Earl of Dundonald.
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 Mini Biographies of Scots and Scots Descendants - Dunmore, John Murray
John Murray Dunmore, 4th Earl of Dunmore, (1732-1809), British Colonial Administrator was born in Scotland.
After a riot at the June session of the colonial legislature, Dunmore transferred the seat of government to the British man-o-war, Fowey, anchored at Yorktown.
Dunmore equipped a flotilla and used it to attack Ham.
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 John Murray - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore (1730–1809), (Lord Dunmore), colonial governor of Virginia and later the Bahamas
John Wilson Murray, (1841-1914), police detective born in England worked in the USA and Canada during the late 19th/early 20th centuries.
John Murray (theologian), 1898-1975, Calvinist theologian, Presbyterian minister, professor at Princeton Seminary, and Westminster Theological Seminary.
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 lord dunmore
Lord John Murray Dunmore was born in Scotland in 1732.
Dunmore, John Murray, 4th Earl of, Viscount Of Fincastle, Lord Murray Of Blair,...
Dunmore supposed that Lewis's intent was to attack the village in disregard to his orders.
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 Earl of Dunmore   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The title Earl of Dunmore was granted in 1686 to the Lord Charles Murray, son of John Murray, 1st Marquess of Atholl.
The earldom is in the Peerage of Scotland, as are two associated subsidiary titles, namely, Viscount of Fincastle and Lord Murray of Blair, Moulin and Tillimet.
Furthermore, the Earldom is associated with the title Baron Dunmore, created in the Peerage of the United Kingdom in 1831 for the fifth Earl and was held until the death of the ninth Earl in 1980.
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 Dunmore Homes
Dunmore East (''Dún Mór'' in Irish) is a small village in County Waterford, Republic of Ireland, located on the east side of Waterford Harbour on Ireland's southern coast.
Dunmore County was a county in Virginia formed in 1772.
Dunmore County was formed in 1772 and named for the current colonial Governor of Virginia, Lord Dunmore.
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Succeeding the Earl of Zetland as Grand Master in 1870 was one of Masonry's controversial political figures, George Frederick Samuel Robinson, 3rd Earl de Grey.
John George Lambton, 1st Earl of Durham, was Grand Prior of Scotland.
The Earl of Durham was Ambassador at the Court of the Czar in St. Petersburg, Lord Privy Seal (1820-1833), Governor General of British North America, High-Steward of Hull, and a Privy Councilor.
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 thePeerage.com - Victoria Georgina Beatrice Maud Anne von Pawel-Rammingen, Baroness von Pawel-Rammingen and others
She was the daughter of John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore and Lady Charlotte Stewart.
     John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore was born in 1730.
She married John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore, son of William Murray, 3rd Earl of Dunmore and Catherine Murray, on 21 February 1759.
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 Dunmore wikipedia - Men's Rockport Works Dunmore   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
And in such a time of not blogging, Dunmore Caves leapfrogged over the peak of interesting times...
John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore (1730 February 25, 1809) was the British governor of the Province of New York from 1770 to 1771 and the Virginia Colony, from September 25, 1771 until his departure to...
Simon Dunmore - Bed Supperclub Friday, 6 April 2007 Bed Supperclub presents founder and producer of...
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 thePeerage.com - David Macdowall Grant and others
She was the daughter of William Hay, 4th Earl of Erroll.
He was the son of John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore and Lady Charlotte Stewart.
She married Lt.-Col. Alexander Murray, son of John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore and Lady Charlotte Stewart, on 18 May 1811.
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 Murray Islands - Search Results - ninemsn Encarta   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Murray Islands, three islands in Queensland, Australia, situated off the continent’s north-eastern coast, in the Torres Strait.
The High Court of Australia's Mabo Judgment on Native Land Title 1992, which conceded the entitlement of the indigenous inhabitants of Australia to...
Eddie Koiki Mabo spent much of his life effectively exiled from his home in the Murray Island group in the Torres Strait, between Queensland and...
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 News Releases
Both miniatures are watercolor on ivory and are set in frames that bear an earl’s coronet and the single letter “D.” The vast array of accessories in addition to the subject’s exaggerated slump and scowl suggest some degree of stereotyping.
John A. Hyman and Betty C. Leviner, important Colonial Williamsburg benefactors, agreed to underwrite the remaining cost of the miniature, provided that Colonial Williamsburg purchased the second portrait owned by Young.
Lord Dunmore was appointed by the English Crown to serve as royal governor of Virginia in spring 1772.
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 The Art Fund - Portrait of John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore
Portrait of John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore
By descent to Mrs Murray; by descent to Mrs Zipperlen.
Lord Dunmore was an important politician and soldier whose pro-native policy in America antagonised the Colonial settlers and precipitated the War of Independence.
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 Dunmore's War — FactMonster.com
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 Nothing To See Here: The Pineapple, Dunmore
When it was completed in 1761 pineapples had only been grown in Scotland for 30 years and were so exotic few people would have seen one, let alone tasted one, but even today, accustomed as we have become to the fruit it is a joy to see.
Commissioned by John Murray, the 4th Earl of Dunmore, the precise reason for its creation has been lost with time.
Pineapples were grown at Dunmore in the Earl's heated greenhouses, and the windows looks out onto a fruit orchard which still survives today.
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 National Galleries of Scotland | Online Collections » Simple Search » John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Murray is shown here in his mid-thirties wearing the Highland Dress of the 3rd Regiment of Foot Guards.
Lord Dunmore later went to America and became Governor of New York and then Governor of Virginia.
He was a founder member of the Royal Academy of Arts and its first president, a position of huge influence which Reynolds used to set the future course of British art.
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