(d. 1818), 6th dau. of 6th E. of Galloway [S]; m. 1759 4th E. of Dunmore [S].
1792 - 3 Naples (Sep. - Dec. 1792 - ), Rome (by 1 Apr. 1793), Florence (by 17 Jun.) [England by Nov. 1793]
In September 1792 Sir William Hamilton sought permission to land at Naples coaches belonging to Lord Archibald Hamilton (later 9th Duke of Hamilton) and his relatives the Countess of Dunmore and her daughter Lady Augusta Murray.1 The ladies were shunned by Neapolitan society due to their acquaintance with the republican French minister2 and, according to Hamilton, Lady Augusta behaved not altogether discreetly. Lady Dunmore, however, was among those who helped tend his bilious attacks at the end of 1792.3 They next went to Rome where Lady Augusta Murray secretly married Prince Augustus on 4 April, see Prince Augustus. Sometime in 1793 Lady Dunmore sat to Robert Fagan, who shared her radical sympathies (the portrait last recorded on the London art market in 1941). Lord Bruce admitted the ladies cut 'a conspicuous figure'4 and Lady Knight, predictably, chose to ignore them.5 From Rome they went to Florence where they stayed indoors.4
Lady Augusta, and presumably her mother, were back in England by November 1793; there was a second marriage ceremony with Prince Augustus in Hanover Square on 5 December. Emma Hamilton visited 'her old friend' Lady Dunmore at Hastings in 1804.6
1. ASN e 673. 2. HMC Ailesbury, 250. 3. Aspinall ed., Later Corr.of George III, 2:150n. Morrison, 1:172 (no.215). 4. HMC Ailesbury, 254. 5. Knight Letters, 192 - 3. 6. F. Fraser, Beloved Emma, 310.