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Catherine Murray, Countess of Dunmore

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Alexander Murray, 6th Earl of Dunmore (quarterly of six 1st Azure three mullets Argent within a double tressure flory counterflory Or 2nd Or a fess chequy Azure and Argent 3rd Paly of six Or and Sable 4th Argent on a bend Azure three bucks; heads caboshed Or 5th three human legs in armour conjoined
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at the upper part of the thigh and flexed in triangle Proper garnished Or 6th Gules two lions passant Argent) impaling George Herbert, 11th Earl of Pembroke (per pale Azure and Gules three lions rampant Argent).
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copied in tweed by the local weavers and suits were later made for the Dunmore estate. Proving a success, Lady Dunmore sought to widen the market by removing the irregularities, caused by
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but resigned upon her husband's death four years later. Following his death, she inherited 150,000 acres (610 km) of the Dunmore estate on the "island" of
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Fanny Beckett moved to London in 1888 and the Scottish Home Industries which managed the new product, became a limited company in 1896.
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Lady Victoria Alexandrina, or Lady Alexandrina Victoria Murray (1845–1911), married Rev. Henry Cunliffe (1826–1894), son of
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for the Harris weavers and by the late 1840s, a London market was established, which led to an increase in sales of tweed.
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of 1846–47, Lady Dunmore paid for her tenants to emigrate and gave them a grant to help them settle. Together with
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She made several improvements to the estate village, building a school and laying out a new village green.
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Charles Adolphus, styled Viscount Fincastle, later 7th Earl of Dunmore
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as his second wife, and had issue three sons and four daughters.
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Lady Susan Catherine Mary (1837–1915), married 29 November 1860
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The Countess died, aged seventy-one, on 12 February 1886 at
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William Buller-Fullerton-Elphinstone, 15th Lord Elphinstone
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Coat of arms of Catherine Murray, Countess of Dunmore
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Lady Constance Euphemia Woronzow (1838–1922), married
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Murray , Catherine, countess of Dunmore (1814–1886)
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St James's
London
Carberry Tower
Inveresk
East Lothian
Alexander Murray, 6th Earl of Dunmore
Charles Murray, 7th Earl of Dunmore
George Herbert, 11th Earl of Pembroke
Countess Catherine Vorontsova
Lady of the Bedchamber
Queen Victoria
peeress
Harris Tweed
St James's
George Herbert, 11th Earl of Pembroke
Countess Yekaterina Vorontsova
Semyon Romanovich Vorontsov
Court of St. James's
Alexander Murray, Viscount Fincastle
Frankfurt am Main
earldom of Dunmore
James Carnegie, 9th Earl of Southesk
William Buller-Fullerton-Elphinstone, 15th Lord Elphinstone
Charles Adolphus, styled Viscount Fincastle, later 7th Earl of Dunmore
Sir Robert Henry Cunliffe, 4th Bt.
Lady of the Bedchamber
Queen Victoria
Harris

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