Henrietta Murray, Viscountess of Stormont
The Viscountess of Stormont | |
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1759 portrait of Lady Stormont in her silver-thread wedding gown by Marcello Bacciarelli (Scone Palace collection) | |
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| Born | Henrietta Friederika Reichsgräfin von Bünau 1737 |
| Died | 16 March 1766 Vienna, Austria, Holy Roman Empire |
| Spouse(s) | Frederik de Berregaard (died 1757) David Murray, 7th Viscount Stormont, 2nd Earl of Mansfield |
| Children | Lady Elizabeth Finch-Hatton The Hon. Henrietta Anne Murray |
| Parent | Heinrich Reichsgraf von Bünau |
Henrietta Friederika Murray, Viscountess of Stormont (née Countess Henrietta Friederika von Bünau; 1737–1766) was a German salonnière. Born into a noble family of imperial comital rank, she later married the British ambassador David Murray, 7th Viscount Stormont after the pair fell in love in Dresden. She accompanied her husband to his diplomatic post at the Habsburg court in Vienna, where she held salons and used her family connections to secure their position in society. Her health declined rapidly and she died in Vienna at the age of twenty-nine. Her husband had her heart embalmed in a gold vase and taken to Scone Palace in Scotland.