William Murray - Nobility

Nobility

  • William Murray, 1st Earl of Dysart (1600?–1655), Scottish nobleman and whipping-boy to King Charles I of England
  • William Murray, Marquess of Tullibardine (1689–1746), Jacobite
  • William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield (1705–1793), British jurist
  • William Murray, 4th Earl of Mansfield and Mansfield (1806–1898), British nobleman
  • William Murray, 5th Earl of Mansfield and Mansfield (1860–1906), British nobleman
  • William Murray, 8th Earl of Mansfield and Mansfield (born 1930), Scottish nobleman and Conservative politician

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Famous quotes containing the word nobility:

    “Many things about our bodies would not seem to us so filthy and obscene if we did not have the idea of nobility in our heads.”
    —G.C. (Georg Christoph)

    “The army is the true nobility of our country.”
    —Napoleon Bonaparte III (1808–1873)

    “If there be no nobility of descent in a nation, all the more indispensable is it that there should be nobility of ascent—a character in them that bear rule, so fine and high and pure, that as men come within the circle of its influence, they involuntarily pay homage to that which is the one pre-eminent distinction, the Royalty of Virtue.”
    —Henry Codman Potter (1835–1908)