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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.
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.
Miniature Portrait of John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore. On November 7, 1775, he issued a proclamation that shocked Virginians, offering freedom to slaves and indentured servants who would leave their masters to fight with the British.
The fourth Earl was a Scottish Representative Peer in the House of Lords from 1761 to 1774 and from 1776 to 1790 and served as colonial governor of New York, Virginia and the Bahamas. His tenure as governor of the New York and Virginia colonies was to end with the start of the American Revolution.
When John Murray 4th Earl of Dunmore was born about 1731, in Garmouth, Elginshire, Scotland, his father, Lord William Murray, was 36 and his mother, Catherine Murray of Nairne, was 30. He married Lady Charlotte Stewart Countess of Dunmore on 21 February 1759, in Edinburgh, Scotland.
