William Murray, 2nd Earl of Tullibardine
William Murray, 2nd Earl of Tullibardine (c. 1574–1626) was a Scottish landowner and courtier.
He was the son of John Murray, 1st Earl of Tullibardine, and Catherine Drummond, daughter of David, 2nd Lord Drummond.
He travelled abroad in 1594 to learn languages, first going to London with James Drummond of
At the
In 1608 he plotted with his brother-in-law John Grant of Freuchie and Mr James Stewart, Commissary of Dunkeld, to help the Earl of Atholl escape from Edinburgh Castle.[4]
In 1616 he had a warrant to arrest Robert Crichton of Cluny. His men caught up with him in St Cuthbert's in Edinburgh and they fought in the church.[5]
On 14 March 1617 King James wrote to him from
Family
Murray married firstly in 1599 Cecilia Wemyss, daughter of
His second wife, who he married in 1604, Dorothea Stewart, was the daughter of John Stewart, 5th Earl of Atholl, and Marie Ruthven. Their children included:
- Mary Murray, who married Sir John Moncrieffe of Moncrieffe.
- John Murray (d. 1642) became Earl of Tullibardine in 1626 and Earl of Athollin 1629.
References
- ^ Annie I. Cameron, Calendar State Papers Scotland, vol. 11 (Edinburgh, 1936), p. 447.
- ^ John Mackie, Calendar State Papers Scotland: 1597-1603, 13:2 (Edinburgh, 1969), p. 862.
- ^ Jessica L. Malay, Anne Clifford's Autobiographical Writing, 1590-1676 (Manchester, 2018), pp. 21-22, 64, probably the Mary Cary who later married John Arundell (1576–1654) of Trerice.
- ^ David Masson, Register of the Privy Council of Scotland: 1607-1610, vol. 8 (Edinburgh, 1887), pp. 221, 546.
- ^ Robert Chambers, Domestic Annals of Scotland, vol. 1 (Edinburgh, 1858), p. 470.
- ^ HMC Manuscripts of the Duke of Athole and of the Earl of Home (London, 1891), p. 10 no. 7
- ^ Sebastiaan Verweij, The Literary Culture of Early Modern Scotland (Oxford, 2017), pp. 71, 214-5; 'Ten Sonnets from Scotland', English Manuscript Studies, 16 (2011), pp. 156-8.