Charles Scott-Murray

Charles Robert Scott-Murray (28 December 1818 – 27 August 1882)[1] was a British Conservative politician.[2]

Charles Scott-Murray
Charles Robert Scott-Murray
Member of Parliament for Buckinghamshire
In office 5 July 1841 – 21 February 1845 Serving with William FitzMaurice (1842–1845) Caledon Du Pré (1841–1845) William Young (1841–1842)
Preceded by	George Simon Harcourt William Young Caledon Du Pré
Succeeded by	Caledon Du Pré William FitzMaurice Christopher Tower
Personal details
Born	28 December 1818
Died	27 August 1882 (aged 63)
Nationality	British
Political party	Conservative

Life

He was the son of Charles Scott Murray of Danesfield House, and his wife Augusta Eliza Nixon, widow of John Buller M.P., and was educated at Eton College and Christ Church, Oxford, where he matriculated in 1837 and graduated B.A. in 1841.[3][4][5] On his father's death in 1837, he inherited Danesfield House and had it enlarged by Anthony Salvin. He was received into the Roman Catholic Church in 1844, in Rome, and became a patron of Augustus Pugin.[6][7]

Scott-Murray was elected Conservative Member of Parliament for Buckinghamshire at the 1841 general election and held the seat until 1845 when he resigned by accepting the office of Steward of the Manor of Hempholme.[8][2]

One of Scott-Murray's chaplains was Thomas John Capel. The association played a part in the reception as a Catholic of John Crichton-Stuart, 3rd Marquess of Bute.[9]

Family

Scott-Murray married on 17 September 1846 Amelia Charlotte Fraser, eldest daughter of Thomas Fraser, 12th Lord Lovat.[10][11]

Amelia Scott-Murray, 1863 photograph

Their sons included Charles Aloysius Scott-Murray (1847–1909), High Sheriff of Buckinghamshire in 1890, Augustin John Alphonse Scott-Murray (1848–1871), and Basil Henry Scott-Murray (born 1858), an officer of the Scots Guards.[3][12] Scott-Murray was one of the early supporters of The Oratory School, to which he sent his two elder sons who had been educated at home; but quite soon expressed reservations about it.[13][14] Daughters were Mildred Frances, married in 1871 Ralph Henry Christopher Nevile; Laura Amelia Margaret; and Mary Elizabeth Charlotte.[12]

References

1. Rayment, Leigh (4 October 2017). "The House of Commons: Constituencies beginning with "B"". Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page. Archived from the original on 6 November 2018. Retrieved 10 February 2019.
2. Stooks Smith, Henry. (1973) [1844–1850]. Craig, F. W. S. (ed.). The Parliaments of England (2nd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. pp. 14–15. ISBN 0-900178-13-2.
3. Gordon-Gorman, William James (1910). "Converts to Rome: a biographical list of the more notable converts to the Catholic Church in the United Kingdom during the last sixty years". London : Sands. p. 267.
4. Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry. H. Colburn. 1847. p. 904.
5. Foster, Joseph (1888–1892). "Murray, Charles Robert Scott" . Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715–1886. Oxford: Parker and Co – via Wikisource.
6. Pevsner, Nikolaus; Williamson, Elizabeth; Brandwood, Geoffrey K. (1994). Buckinghamshire. Yale University Press. p. 470. ISBN 9780300095845.
7. MacDevitt, N. (1847). Twelve Articles in Refutation of the Rev. Mr. McIlwaine's Six Charges against the Church of Rome. Author. p. 110.
8. Craig, F. W. S., ed. (1977). British Parliamentary Election Results 1832–1885 (1st ed.). London: Macmillan Press. p. 355. ISBN 978-1-349-02349-3.
9. Hannah, Rosemary (2012). The Grand Designer: Third Marquess of Bute. Birlinn. p. 1577. ISBN 9780857902276.
10. Sheahan, James Joseph (1862). History and Topography of Buckinghamshire: Comprising a General Survey of the County, Preceded by an Epitome of the Early History of Great Britain. Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts. p. 905. ISBN 9780804833905.
11. Wright's supplement to the peerage of 1845. 1847. p. 33.
12. Swanzy, Henry Biddall (1908). "The families of French of Belturbet and Nixon of Fermanagh, and their descendants". [Dublin, Printed by A. Thom & Co.] p. 181.
13. Shrimpton, Paul (2005). A Catholic Eton?: Newman's Oratory School. Gracewing Publishing. p. 58. ISBN 9780852446614.
14. Shrimpton, Paul (2005). A Catholic Eton?: Newman's Oratory School. Gracewing Publishing. p. 133. ISBN 9780852446614.

External links

• Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Mr Charles Murray