Sir Charles Augustus Murray PC KCB (22 November 1806 – 3 June 1895) was a British author and diplomat.

Henry Anthony Murray, a Rear Admiral in the Royal Navy, who died unmarried.

His aunt, Lady Augusta Murray, married Prince Augustus Frederick, a younger son of King George III.

[4][5] Murray spent several years travelling across Europe and America from 1835 and 1838, including several months with a Pawnee tribe in 1835.

He attempted to remain in the United States as Secretary of the British Legation, but failed to obtain the position.

He obtained a position, from 1838 to 1844, as Master of the Household and Extra Groom in Waiting in the Court of the young Queen Victoria.

Anglo-Persian relations were already strained as the young Shah sought to annex the city of Herat, a goal which had eluded the Qajar dynasty previously; and Britain for its part sought to deny such control, lest the city, considered the "Key to India," fall under the influence of Persia's patron, Russia.

She died on 8 December 1851 shortly after giving birth to their only child:[6] Murray married a second time, on 1 November 1862, to his first cousin once removed the Honourable Edith Susan Esther FitzPatrick, daughter of John FitzPatrick, 1st Baron Castletown and the former Augusta Mary Douglas (the daughter of Rev.