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MTJNSTER — MURRAY. 423 Earldom. /. George Aucl'sti's Frederick Fitz-Clarenck, eldest t ioii of the five illegit sons of King William IV., (sometime. 1780 to ' 1S30^ DUKE OK CLARENCE, &C, and also F.ARL OK Ml NSTEIi [1.]), by Doraf) (generally known as " ilrt. Jin-dun,") da. of Prancis Bland (apparently "a stage underling "(*>) a t Cork), was b. 16 Jan. 1791; ed. at the Military College at Harlow ; entered the 10th Hussars (when 11) 1S07, serving in the peninsular and being severely wounded at Toulouse ; served subsequently (in the 24th Light Dragoons) i" India, 1814-18 : retired in 1878 as Lieut-Col. becoming finally, 1841, Majnr Oeneral. On tin- access! .1' his leather to the throne, he was, 1800, made Aide-de-camp to the King : Dep. Adjutant Oeneral of the Forces, July to Dec. 1S30 and was cr. 1 June 1881j BARON TKtt'KKSBURY, e... Uloucester, VISCOUNT FITZ-CLARENCK and EARL l)E MU8STKR) with a spec, rem. of those dignities, failing the heirs male of his body, to Frederick Fnz-Cl.AKENcE. Adolphus Fnz- ClaRENce, and Augustus Fitz-Clarlnck.D He was Lieut, of the Tower of London, 1S31-33: Col. of the 1st Tower hamlets militia, 1S31-42 ; Constable of Windsor Castle, 1833-12 ; I'.C. 1833; Knight Grand Cross of Ferdinand of Wurteinburg ; Aide-de-camp to Queen Victoria, 1 837. I' U.S.. F.S.A., and, in 1S41 , President of the Royal Asiatic Society, of which he hail been an original [1824) member. (■•). He m. 18 Oct. 1S10, Mary WTSOHA»(»), illegit. da. of George (Windham). 3d Karl ok Kurk.mont, by ( — 1 Il.IKK, Spinster, He committed suicide by shooting himself, in Upper Belgrave street, 20 March 1S12, aged 15, and was bur. in Hampton church, Midx. Will pr. Ap. 1842. His widow d. a few months later, 3 Dec. 1S42, in Portland place. II. 18U2. 2. William George (Fitz-Ularexce), Karl of Miwstkk, Sec, s. and h , b. 19 May 1824; styled Viscount Fitz- ClaBENCK, from 1S31 till he sue. to the peerage 20 March 18-42; an officer in the Life Guards, IS 42 to 1852, when he retired as Captain. He in. 17 April 1856, at All Saints, Knightsbridge, his first cousin, Wilhelmiua, da. of the Hon. John Kbnnedy-Erskine, of Dun. co. Forfar, by Augusta Fitz-Clarence, one of the sisters (by the same parents) of the 1st Earl ok Monster. She was b. 27 June 1830. [Edward Fitz-Clarence, stylml VKCOUsri brrz- Clarence, 1st s. and h. ; h. 20 Much 1850, at Rutland Gate, Hyde Park. He il. v.p. 20 Nov. 1S70 in his 15th year.] (Geoffrey Georce Gordon' Fitz-Clarence, ■<h//ed Lord Tewke-suury since 1S70, 3d but 1st surv. s. aud h. ap. ; 4. IS July 1S59 ; Capt. King's Royal rifle corps, 188S.] Family Estates. These, in 1SS3, were under 2,000 acres. MURRAY, see also Moray. [The Scotch Earldoms held by the families of Randolph, Dunbar and Stewart are entered under the spelling of Moray.] ( a ) She was b. near Waterford, 1762, aud d. at St. Cloud near Paris, 5 July 1810. As an actress of comedy (1 782-1816) she is said to have been unrivalled lor " perfect nature with arch simplicity." Besides her ten children by the Royal Duke, she had I previously; 5 daughters, viz., four by Sir Richard Ford, a police magistrate and one by Richard Daly, manager of the Cork theatre. ( b ) "Nat. Bioy," under "Jordan." (°) These were his three surviving brothers — the other brother, Henry Fitz-Clarence, had d. unm. in India. They and three of their (live) sisters were granted, by royal warrant, 24 May 1831, the precedence of the children of a Marquess. ( d ) He " had collected an immense mass of information from the great continental libraries and other sources for a History of the art of icar among Eastern nations." His "Journal of a Route across India, &c, 1S17-1S," is "a work exhibiting much observation and containing some curious plates of Indian military costumes of the day, from sketches of the author." [Ml*. Biotj., sub " Fit z- Clarence."] (•) Her hr. Gcorgo Wyudham, was, in 1850, cr. Baron Lecoulicld.