Mingo's blue blood

The character Mingo on the Daniel Boone TV show (played by Ed Ames) was supposed to have been the son of the 4th Earl of Dunmore. Oddly enough, this was a real person. Since Kenneth Randolph Murray was the Earl (the 11th) at the time of the program, one wonders if they cleared beforehand any possible legal objections before attaching an illegitimate son to the family name.

John Murray was a Scottish peer and the last royal Governor of Virginia. He has previously been the Governor of New York and later was Governor of the Bahamas, so he was an important figure in colonial affairs.

The current Earl (the 12th) is Malcolm Murray, a native of Australia.