On New Year's Day in 1776, Dunmore gave orders to burn waterfront buildings in Norfolk from which patriot troops were firing on his ships.

In 1831 he was created Baron Dunmore, of Dunmore in the Forest of Athole in the County of Perth, in the Peerage of the United Kingdom, which gave him and his descendants a permanent seat in the House of Lords.

’ The Master ,’ as he was known far and wide from his days as a teacher at Strawberry Hill National School in the parish of Dunmore, had earlier been labelled ’ The Boy Wonder ’ when he gave a stirring midfield performance to inspire St. Jarlath ’ s College to their first Hogan Stand success in 1947 beating St. Patrick ’ s, Armagh, in the All-Ireland at Croke Park.

Dr. Peter Middleton reported on the progress with furthering this idea in another address to King ’ s College on November 3, 1769, stating “ The necessity and usefulness of a public infirmary has so warmly and pathetically set forth in a discourse delivered by Dr. Samuel Bard … that his Excellency, Sir Henry Moore immediately set on foot a subscription for that purpose to which himself and most of the gentlemen present liberally contributed .” Soon thereafter the new Governor of the Colony, John, the Earl of Dunmore through the interposition of Lieutenant Governor Cadwallader-Colden ” started a fund for the establishment of such a hospital.

On 6 May, Dunmore issued a proclamation against " a certain Patrick Henry.

At the outset of the Revolutionary War, Henry led militia against the Royal Governor Lord Dunmore in defense of some disputed gunpowder, an event known as the Gunpowder Incident.

A granite obelisk atop Dunmore Hill to the north commemorates Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville.

The company stood ready to aid Patrick Henry in an anticipated clash with Lord Dunmore at Williamsburg, Virginia, in May 1775, but Dunmore abandoned the city in June, and they joined units from the surrounding counties in Williamsburg later that month.

After a series of escalations over the Whig refusal to allow provisions to be delivered to the overcrowded vessels, Dunmore and Commodore Henry Pellow decided to bombard the town.

** John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore, ( Lord Dunmore ) ( d. 1809 )

* October 10 – Dunmore's War – Battle of Point Pleasant: Cornstalk is forced to make peace with Dunmore at the Treaty of Camp Charlotte, ceding Shawnee land claims south of the Ohio ( modern Kentucky ) to Virginia.

John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore ( 1732 – 25 February 1809 ) was a British peer and colonial governor.

John was the eldest son of William and Catherine Murray, and nephew of John Murray, second Earl of Dunmore.

In 1756, after the deaths of his uncle and father, John became the fourth Earl of Dunmore, and sat as a Scottish representative peer in the House of Lords from 1761 to 1774 and from 1776 to 1790.

Soon after his appointment, however, in 1770, Virginia's governor, Norborne Berkeley, 4th Baron Botetourt ( Lord Botetourt ) died, and Dunmore was named to replace him.

Dunmore actively served as royal governor of the Colony of Virginia from 25 September 1771 until his departure to New York in 1776 ; he continued to hold the position and to draw his pay until 1783 when American independence was recognized.

Despite growing issues with Great Britain, Lord Dunmore had been a popular governor in Virginia, even though he served only five years.

Lacking in diplomatic skills, Dunmore maintained a contentious relationship with the colonists.

In response, Dunmore again dissolved the House.

From 1774, Dunmore was continually clashing with colonial leaders.

Dunmore saw rising unrest in the colony and sought to deprive Virginia militia of supplies needed for insurrection.

Dunmore issued a proclamation against electing delegates to the Congress, but did not take serious action.

" speech at the Second Convention and the accompanying resolution calling for forming an armed resistance made Dunmore " think it prudent to remove some Gunpowder which was in a Magazine in this place.

That day, Dunmore evacuated his family from the Governor's Palace to his hunting lodge, Porto Bello in York County, adjacent to the York River.

As hostilities continued, Dunmore left Williamsburg himself on 8 June 1775, retreating to Porto Bello where he joined his family.

Dunmore is noted for Lord Dunmore's Proclamation, also known as Lord Dunmore's Offer of Emancipation, on 7 November 1775, whereby he offered freedom to slaves who abandoned their Patriot masters to join the British.

As governor of Virginia, Dunmore had withheld his signature from a bill against the slave trade.

However, after the Battle of Kemp's Landing, Dunmore became overconfident, which precipitated his defeat at the Battle of Great Bridge, 9 December 1775.

Harry M. Miller, entrepreneur, bought the Manilla property " Dunmore " in the 1970s and with the purchase of pedigree German Simmental cattle from New Zealand, made " Dunmore " the largest producer of the breed in Australia.

* Carol Ann Drazba, a 1961 graduate of Dunmore High School, was one of the first two American women to be killed in Vietnam when the helicopter that she and fellow nurse Elizabeth Ann Jones of Allendale, S. C., were riding in crashed on February 18, 1966, killing all seven people on board.

Interstate 84, Interstate 380. and U. S. Route 6 meet I-81 at the Throop Dunmore Interchange in Dunmore near Throop.

Present fellows include Chinua Achebe, Antonia Fraser, Athol Fugard, Doris Lessing, V. S. Naipaul, Peter Dickinson, Tom Stoppard, Helen Dunmore and J. K. Rowling.

Capitol Records initially failed to see the band's potential and gave them only low key promotion, forcing the band to play at small venues to try and gain attention.

In 1815, at a key period of Bolívar's fight for Venezuelan independence, he gave the Venezuelan leader asylum and provided him with soldiers and substantial material support.

Within the next century, however, European and Asian economies were slowly becoming integrated through the rise of new global trade routes ; and the early thrust of European political power, commerce, and culture in Asia gave rise to a growing trade in lucrative commodities — a key development in the rise of today's modern world free market economy

Riding to battle had two key advantages: it reduced fatigue, particularly when the elite soldiers wore armour ( as was increasingly the case in the centuries after the fall of the Western Roman empire ); and it gave the soldiers more mobility to react to the raids of the enemy, particularly the Muslim invasions which reached Europe in 711.

Finally, just as Aeschylus gave Prometheus a key role in bringing Zeus to power, he also attributed to him secret knowledge that could lead to Zeus's downfall: Prometheus had been told by his mother Gaia of a potential marriage that would produce a son who would overthrow Zeus.

The formalization of the struggles over taxation between the monarch and other elements of society ( especially the nobility and the cities ) gave rise to what is now called the Standestaat, or the state of Estates, characterized by parliaments in which key social groups negotiated with the king about legal and economic matters.

* The city of Timmins ( located in Ontario, Canada ) renamed a street for her, gave her the key to the city, and built the Shania Twain Centre in her honour.

New York City mayor Mike Bloomberg announced 28 March 2007 " Teletubbies Day " and gave the key to the city to the Teletubbies.

A " shift " key gave each main key two optional values.

Roman men gave engagement rings that included a small key.

Psion gave 130 key staff to the new company and retained a 31 % shareholding in the spun-out business.

Bolden is also credited with the discovery or invention of the so-called " Big Four ", a key rhythmic innovation on the marching band beat, which gave embryonic jazz much more room for individual improvisation.

Nietzsche in " What I Owe to the Ancients " in his Twilight of the Idols wrote: " The psychology of the orgiastic as an overflowing feeling of life and strength, where even pain still has the effect of a stimulus, gave me the key to the concept of tragic feeling, which had been misunderstood both by Aristotle and even more by modern pessimists.

Three witnesses gave key evidence that swayed Justice Spicer to hold that there was not enough evidence to indict the Earps and Doc Holliday for murder.

Pluto was initially a minor character until 1934, when Disney animator Norm Ferguson gave the dog a key role in the cartoon Playful Pluto.

For this Hans Frank, disgraced and facing death on the gallows for following Hitler, fabricating such a story might be a cunning way of ensuring his place in history as the one man who gave the world the hidden key to the mystery of Hitler's psyche.

In a few key locations the king gave his followers compact groups of estates including the six rapes of Sussex and the three earldoms of Chester, Shrewsbury and Hereford ; intended to protect the line of communication with Normandy and the Welsh border respectively.

Botkin also gave Nilsson a key to his office, providing another place to write after hours.

The Bancrofts gave Robertson an unprecedented amount of directorial control over the plays, which was a key step to institutionalizing the power that directors wield in the theatre today.

" Ironically, Reines ’ excelled in literary and history courses, but received average or low marks in science and math in his freshman year of high school, though he improved in those areas by his junior and senior years through the encouragement of an unidentified teacher who gave him a key to the school laboratory and gave him permission to work whenever he wanted.

A key event which gave expression to this idea was the 600th anniversary of the Battle of Kosovo ( Vidovdan ) on 28 June 1989, which was held at the Gazimestan plain, near the site of the battle.

In New York City, New York, Mayor Jimmy Walker gave Rin Tin Tin a key to the city.