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

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