Member of Parliament for Coventry
What was the position of Charles James Murray from Jul 1895 to Sep 1900?
Charles James Murray Charles James Murray ( 29 November 1851 – 25 September 1929 ) was a British Conservative Party politician and diplomat . Early life . He was the son of The Hon . Sir Charles Augustus Murray and his American born wife Elizabeth Elise Wadsworth . His parents met while his father was spending several years travelling across Europe and America between 1835 and 1838 . His father returned to England in 1838 where his father obtained the position of Master of the Household in the Court of the young Queen Victoria . After being removed from the positions in the Household reforms initiated by Albert , Prince Consort , his father became a diplomat in Naples followed by consul-general in Egypt in 1846 . His parents married in December 1850 during one of his fathers visits to Scotland . While in Cairo , his mother tragically died after giving birth to him . His father later served as Minister to the Swiss Confederation , and Envoy to the Shah of Persia and the King of Saxony . In 1862 , his father remarried to his first cousin once removed Hon . Edith Susan Esther Fitzpatrick ( a daughter of John Fitzpatrick , 1st Baron Castletown ) . From this marriage , Charles had a much younger half-brother , Cecil Henry Alexander Murray . His paternal grandparents were George Murray , 5th Earl of Dunmore and the former Lady Susan Hamilton ( a daughter of Archibald Hamilton , 9th Duke of Hamilton ) . His paternal uncle was Alexander Murray , 6th Earl of Dunmore and among his paternal cousins were Lady Susan Catherine Mary Murray ( wife of James Carnegie , 9th Earl of Southesk ) , Lady Constance Euphemia Woronzow Murray ( wife of William Elphinstone , 15th Lord Elphinstone ) , and Charles Murray , 7th Earl of Dunmore . His maternal grandparents were prominent landowner and businessman James Wadsworth . His maternal uncle , James S . Wadsworth , was a Union Army General during the American Civil War . Among his American cousins were Cornelia Wadsworth Adair ( who married Scots-Irish businessman John George Adair and became matriarch of Glenveagh Castle in County Donegal , Ireland ) , U.S . Representative James Wolcott Wadsworth , and Elizabeth Wadsworth , who married Arthur Smith-Barry ( later Baron Barrymore ) . Career . Murray was elected as a Member of Parliament ( MP ) for Hastings in 1880 , a position he resigned in 1883 . He was elected Member of Parliament for Coventry in 1895 until he retired at the 1906 general election . He later served as Third Secretary of the Diplomatic Service and was officer in the Ross and Cromarty Mountain Battery , Royal Garrison Artillery . Between 1917 and 1918 , he fought in the World War I and was awarded the Officier de Mérite Agricole . Personal life . On 9 August 1875 , Murray was married to Lady Anne Francesca Wilhelmina Finch , a daughter of Heneage Finch , 6th Earl of Aylesford and the former Jane Wightwick Knightley ( the only daughter and heiress of John Wightwick Knightley of Offchurch Bury ) . Her brothers , Heneage and Charles , both succeeded their father as the 7th and 8th Earl of Aylesford . Together , they lived at Lochcarron , Ross-shire in Scotland and were the parents of : - Sybil Louisa Murray ( 1876–1957 ) , who married Hon . Claude Henry Comaraich Willoughby , a younger son of Henry Willoughby , 8th Baron Middleton , in 1904 . - Lieutenant Alastair Heneage Murray ( 1878–1900 ) , who died at Senekal , South Africa from wounds received in action during the Boer War . - Charles Wadsworth Murray ( 1894–1945 ) , who married Elizabeth Grant , daughter of Frank Grant , in 1924 . Murray died on 25 September 1929 . His widow , Lady Anne , died on 10 January 1933 . Descendants . Through his daughter Sybil , he was a grandfather of Henry Douglas Willoughby ( 1908–1908 ) , Mary Bridget Willoughby ( 1910–2003 ) ( who married Lt.-Gen . Sir Edward Dacre Howard-Vyse in 1940 ) and Joan Lavinia Willoughby ( 1913–1989 ) ( who married Harry Nettleton in 1960 ) . Through his son Charles , he was a grandfather of Helen Rosemary Murray ( b . 1928 ) , who married Hubert Zipperlen in 1966 .