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Patrick Murray, 1st Earl of Tullibardine

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Patrick Murray, 1st Earl of Tullibardine (died 1644) was a Scottish aristocrat.

He was a son of John Murray, 1st Earl of Tullibardine and Catherine Drummond, a daughter of David, 2nd Lord Drummond and Lilias Ruthven.

He became a gentleman of the bedchamber to James VI and I. He was knighted on 25 July 1603 at the coronation of James I.[1] On 12 June 1607 Murray dined with the King at the Clothworker's Hall in London and was made free of the Company.[2]

He had letters of denization in 1613,[3] and was keeper of the Parks of Theobalds in 1617, as successor to Miles Whittaker.[4]

Patrick Murray became Earl of Tullibardine (new creation) in January 1628 when his older brother, William Murray, 2nd Earl of Tullibardine was made Earl of Atholl.

Marriages

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In 1603 Patrick Murray married Prudence Bulmer, a daughter of the English mining entrepreneur Bevis Bulmer.[5] She was the widow of John Beeston, a nephew of the Cheshire landowner Hugh Beeston. They were granted a royal pension of £300 on 18 January 1604.[6]

He married secondly, in 1613, Elizabeth Denton or Dent, widow of the English soldier Sir Francis Vere.[7] Their children included:

References

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  1. ^ John Nichols, Progresses of James the First, vol. 1 (London, 1828), p. 223.
  2. ^ Citizen's Pocket Chronicle of the City of London (London, 1828), p. 206.
  3. ^ William Arthur Shaw, Letters of Denization and Acts of Naturalization for Aliens in England and Ireland (Lymington, 1911), p. 21
  4. ^ Mary Anne Everett Green, Calendar State Papers Domestic, 1611-1618 (London, 1858), pp. 194, 444.
  5. ^ Norman Egbert McClure, Letters of John Chamberlain, vol. 1 (Philadelphia, 1939), p. 476.
  6. ^ Mary Anne Everett Green, Calendar State Papers Domestic, 1603-1610 (London, 1857), p. 69.
  7. ^ Thomas Birch & Robert Folkestone Williams, Court and times of James the First, vol. 1 (London, 1848), p. 274.