Lady Elizabeth Murray

Lady Elizabeth Mary Finch-Hatton (née Lady Elizabeth Mary Murray; 18 May 1760 – 1 June 1825) was a British aristocrat and the subject of a notable painting, once thought to be by Johann Zoffany, now attributed to David Martin. Early life Murray was born on 18 May 1760 in Warsaw, Poland-Lithuania. She was the daughter of David Murray, 2nd Earl of Mansfield, by his first marriage to German Countess Henrietta Frederika von Bünau. Her maternal grandfather was Count Heinrich von Bünau. It was when her father was an ambassador to the Elector of Saxony in Dresden, that he (by then 7th Viscount Stormont) met the beautiful Countess Henrietta Frederika, daughter of Imperial Count Heinrich von Bünau. They went on to be married on 16 August 1759 in Warsaw, Poland. It was a love match, Lord Mansfield himself approved and encouraged his nephew and heir on his courtship. Even though Countess Henrietta was very wealthy, their marriage was unusual for a rising politician, by choosing to marry a foreign noblewoman, Stormont had forsaken the opportunity to gain more social and political connections from a British marriage like his uncle, instead his marriage was based purely upon romantic affection.