page_title: John Murray, 1st Marquess of Atholl
section_title: Appointments
hierarchical_section_title: John Murray, 1st Marquess of Atholl / Appointments
caption_attribution_description: English: Old Dunkeld House detail from "The Prospect of the Town of Dunkeld", Dunkeld in the 17th century from Slezer's Theatrum Scotiae, Sheet 24. Image from Theatrum Scotiae by John Slezer, 1693
context_page_description: John Murray, 1st Marquess of Atholl, KT 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.
context_section_description: In 1660, Murray became a privy councillor for Scotland, obtained a charter of the hereditary office of sheriff of Fife, and in 1661 became Lord Justice-General of Scotland. In 1663 he was appointed Lord President of the Court of Session. Murray became the first captain-general of the Royal Company of Archers in 1670. in 1671 he became a Commissioner of the Exchequer, the following year Keeper of the Privy Seal of Scotland and on 14 January 1673 became an Extraordinary Lord of Session.
  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 7 February 1676.
  He commissioned William Bruce for a rebuild of Dunkeld House in 1676. The house had been badly damaged in 1654, during the civil war, and Bruce was given the task of building its replacement.
caption: Old Dunkeld House, circa 1693
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