Tour Scotland video of the John Murray, 1st Marquess of Atholl, memorial on ancestry visit to the Chapter House in Dunkeld Cathedral , Perthshire, Scotland. John, who was born on the 2nd of May 1631, and who died on the 6th of May 1703, was a leading Scottish royalist and defender of the Stuarts during the English Civil War of the 1640s, until after the rise to power of William and Mary in 1689. He succeeded as 2nd Earl of Atholl on his father's demise in June 1642 and as 3rd Earl of Tullibardine after the death of his first cousin the 2nd Earl in 1670. In 1660, Murray became a privy councillor, obtained a charter of the hereditary office of sheriff of Fife and in 1663 was appointed Lord President of the Court of Session. Murray became the first captain-general of the Royal Company of Archers in 1670. In 1672 he became Keeper of the Privy Seal of Scotland. In 1670 he succeeded to the earldom of Tullibardine on the death of his cousin, the 4th Earl and was created Marquess of Atholl and Viscount Glenalmond on the 7th of February 1676. On the 5th of May 1659, Lord Atholl married Lady Amelia Ann Sophia Stanley, daughter of James Stanley, 7th Earl of Derby and Charlotte de La Tremoille. They had twelve children, but four died young.
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