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Originally appearing in Volume V19, Page 39 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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EUSTACE

CLARE GRENVILLE MURRAY (1824–1881)  ,
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English journalist, was born in 1824, the natural son of the 2nd duke of Buckingham . Educated at Magdalen Hall (Hertford College), Oxford, he entered the
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diplomatic service through the influence of Lord Palmerston, and in 1851 joined the
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British
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embassy at Vienna as attache . At the same time he agreed to act as Vienna correspondent of a
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London daily paper, a breach of the conventions of the British
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Foreign Office which cost him his
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post . In 1852 he was transferred to I-Ianover, and thence to Constantinople, and finally, in 1855, was made consul-general at
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Odessa . In 1868 he returned to England, and devoted himself to journalism . He contributed to the early numbers of Vanity
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Fair, and in 1869 founded a
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clever but abusive society paper, the Queen's Messenger . For a
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libel published in this paper Lord Carrington horsewhipped him on the doorstep of a London club . Murray was subsequently charged with perjury for denying on oath his authorship of the article . Remanded on
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bail, he escaped to Paris, where he subsequently lived, acting as correspondent of various London papers . In 1874 he helped Edmund Yates to found the
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World . Murray died at Passy on the loth of December 1881 . His score of books, several of which were translated into French and published in Paris, include French Pictures in English
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Chalk (1876-1878) ; The Roving Englishman in
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Turkey (1854) ; Men of the Second
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Empire (1872); Young Brown (1874); Sidelights on English Society (1881); and Under the Lens: Social Photographs (1885) .

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