James Murray, 2nd Duke of Atholl
(1690-1764)
Born 28 September 1690 Edinburgh
Died 8 January 1764 Dunkeld
Married (1) 28 April 1726
Jane Frederick, daughter of Thomas Frederick and Leonora Maresco
Born circa 1693
Died 13 June 1748 London
Buried St.Olave's, Old Jewry
Married (2) 7 May 1749 Edinburgh
Jean Drummond, daughter of John Drummond, 3rd of Megginch,
10th of Lennoch and Bethia Murray
Died 22 February 1795 Holyroodhouse
He was quiet and dull in comparison with his fiery elder brother, Tullibardine.
In 1712 he was Captain and Lieutenant Colonel of a Grenadier company in
the 1st Regiment of Foot Guards; and M.P. (Whig) for Perth, 1715-1724.
In 1733 he obtained an Act of Parliament that the attainder of his brother
should extend only to that brother, and not to any other heirs male of
his father.
He was Lord Privy Seal from June 1733 to 6 April 1763, and elected a
Representative Peer in 1733. In 1736, in accordance with the Act of Parliament
of 1715 and even though his elder brother was still alive, he succeeded
his cousin, James Stanley, 10th Earl of Derby, in both the Sovereignty
of the Isle of Man as well as in the Peerage of England as Lord Strange.
He accompanied the Duke of Cumberland to Scotland in 1746, and was Keeper
of the Great Seal from 6 April 1763 till his death. His first wife, Jane
Frederick, was the widow of James Lannoy, a
Hammersmith merchant; by her he was the father of two sons, both dying
in infancy, and two daughters. Consequently when he died his honours and
estates went to his nephew and son-in-law, John Murray.
Source: Leo van de Pas
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