Murray, EUSTACE CLARE GRENVILLE

Murray, EUSTACE CLARE GRENVILLE, the 'Roving Englishman,' was born 2d October 1819, the natural son of the second Duke of Buckingham. After studying at Oxford, he served till 1849 in the Austrian army; in 1851 joined the British embassy at Vienna as attaché; in 1853-54 went on a special mission to the islands in the Aegean Sea; in 1857 was attaché at Teheran; and in the next year consul-general at Odessa. For exposing in the public press in 1866 certain abuses connected with the foreign office he was dismissed the service. He spent the rest of his life in Paris, and died at Passy, on 20th December 1881. As a journalist he is best known for his brilliant papers in the Daily News and Pall Mall Gazette, and as an author by The Roving Englishman (1854-55), Embassies and Foreign Courts (1855), History of the French Press (1874), Men of the Second Empire, &c. (1872-74), and a few brilliant novels. Of the last, The Member for Paris (1871) is the cleverest, but Young Brown (1874), from the circumstances of its hero's birth, has the most interest.