skip to content

Darwin Correspondence Project

Charles Augustus Murray

1806–95

Diplomat and author. BA, Oxford, 1827. Travelled in North America, 1834–5, and wrote an account (1839). Master of Queen Victoria’s household, 1838/9–44. Consul-general in Egypt, 1846–53. Envoy and minister plenipotentiary to the Court of Persia, 1854–9. Retired from the diplomatic service in 1874. Knighted, 1866.

Source

ODNB.

Bibliography

ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.

letter