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John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore PC (1730 – 25 February 1809) was a Scottish peer, military officer, and colonial administrator in the Thirteen Colonies and The Bahamas. He was the last royal governor of Virginia. Dunmore was named governor of New York in 1770.
John Murray, 4th earl of Dunmore was the British royal governor of Virginia on the eve of the American Revolution. A descendant of the Scottish house of Stuart, he was the eldest son of William Murray, the 3rd earl, whom he succeeded in 1756. He sat in the House of Lords from 1761 to 1770 and then.
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15 de may. de 2023 · Governor John Murray, fourth earl of Dunmore, moves British forces from Norfolk to Gwynn's Island in what later will become Mathews County, where smallpox and other diseases ravage his forces and take a particularly heavy toll on the Ethiopian Regiment.
United States. Participants: Shawnee. Virginia. Key People: John Murray, 4th earl of Dunmore. James Logan. John Sevier. Lord Dunmore’s War, (1774), Virginia-led attack on the Shawnee Indians of Kentucky, removing the last obstacle to colonial conquest of that area.
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Courtesy of the Virginia Historical Society, Richmond, VA. John Murray, earl of Dunmore by Charles Harris. Born to Scottish nobility in 1730. Becomes Virginia’s last royal Governor in 1770. Early popularity wanes under radical policy decisions. Dies in 1809.
Lord Dunmore (VMHC 1948.76) John Murray, fourth Earl of Dunmore (1732–1809), was Virginia's last royal governor. He became a hero among Virginians for walking on foot and carrying his own pack during the Indian war of 1774 that bore his name. Soon these same Virginians would hate him.
Biographical Information: John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore (1730-1809), was a British peer and colonial governor. He was the son of William Murray, 3rd Earl of Dunmore, and his wife Catherine (nee Murray).
