Murray, James

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Dates 1650s
Location London
Vocation Courtier
Place of Birth Scotland
Marriage Jean Carnegie
Issue
Place of birth Source J.B. Paul, The Scots Peerage: A History of the Noble Families of Scotland, 9 vols (Edinburgh, 1904-1914), i, 229

Second Earl of Annandale. Also inherited title of third Viscount of Stormont (1642). Murray was a member of the war committee of Dumfriesshire and accompanied Montrose. Also participated in negotiations for the ‘Cromwellian Union’ and signed the Perthshire assent (1652). Retired to London, died without issue in 1658.