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Lady Charlotte Murray suo jure Viscountess of Strathallan (2 August 1754 - 4 April 1808) was a Scottish gentlewoman and botanist. She compiled The British Garden: A Descriptive Catalogue of Hardy Plants, intended as an accessible introduction to the subject.

Biography
Lady Charlotte Murray was born in Dunkeld on 2 August 1754. She was the daughter of Charlotte Murray, and John Murray, 3rd Duke of Atholl. She was the eldest of seven surviving children. Her paternal grandfather was the Jacobite general, Lord George Murray. Her maternal grandfather was the Hanoverian James Murray, 2nd Duke of Atholl.

She was educated in London, although not much detail is known about it.

She never married, and was styled Viscountess of Strathallan in her own right. Although she settled in Bath, England, she visited Scotland regularly and returned to look after the children of her brother John, 4th Duke of Atholl, following the death of his first wife, Jane Cathcart, in 1790.

Charlotte Murray died in Bath on 4 April 1808 and was buried in Bath Abbey.

Work
While living in Bath, she compiled The British Garden: A Descriptive Catalogue of Hardy Plants. Based on the comparatively new Linnaean classification and using English names wherever possible, her book was described at the time of its publication as 'an instructive companion to young botanists'.

She described her book as 'open to almost every curious mind... and conducing to health, by affording a continual and engaging motive for air and exercise'.