William Edmonstone
Admiral Sir William Edmonstone, 4th Baronet CB, DL (29 January 1810 – 18 February 1888), also 14th of Duntreath, was a Scottish naval commander, courtier and Conservative politician.
Life
Born at Hampton, Edmonstone was Member of Parliament for Stirlingshire from 1874 to 1880, and an Aide-de-Camp to Queen Victoria. He was an admiral in the Royal Navy, and was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB).
Sir William Edmonstone died at home, 11 Ainslie Place[1] on the Moray Estate in Edinburgh on 18 February 1888, and was succeeded in the baronetcy by his only surviving son, Archibald Edmonstone. Lady Edmonstone died at Cramond House north-west of Edinburgh, on 11 August 1902.[2]
Family
Edmonstone married at Zakynthos, Greece, on 13 July 1841, Mary Elizabeth Parsons (Newburn, Fife, 21 June 1823 – Cramond House, Midlothian, 11 August 1902), daughter of Lieutenant-Colonel Parsons, CMG, who was British Resident on the island of Zante, at a time when the Ionian Islands were a British Protectorate. Mary Elizabeth and Sir William in all had eleven children, nine of whom survived into adulthood:
- Mary Emma Frances (1842–1847), died when she was five
- Archibald Edmonstone, died in infancy; their second son (see below) bore the same name.
- Jessie Edmondstone (d. 10 June 1937)
- Louisa Ann Edmonstone (b. 1844 d. 3 July 1921) m. Major General Henry Pipon CB 1872
- Charlotte Henrietta Edmonstone (d. 21 October 1931), married in 1866 John Francis Kitson.[3]
- Frances Euphemia Edmonstone (d. 14 February 1921)
- Sophia Edmonstone (d. 19 February 1924)
- Susanna Emily Edmonstone (d. 9 May 1886)
- Mary Clementina Edmondstone (1857 – 2 December 1922) married Andrew Graham Murray, Viscount Dunedin
- Sir Archibald Edmonstone of Duntreath, 5th Bt. (30 May 1867 – 1 April 1954)
- Alice Frederica Edmonstone[4] (29 April 1868 or 14 October 1869 – 11 September 1947), a British socialite and one of the many mistresses of Edward VII of the United Kingdom; her great granddaughter Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall (née Shand, born 17 July 1947) is the second wife of Charles, Prince of Wales.
See also
- O'Byrne, William Richard (1849). John Murray – via Wikisource. . .
Notes
- ^ Edinburgh Post Office Directory 1888
- ^ "Deaths". The Times. No. 36845. London. 13 August 1902. p. 1. template uses deprecated parameter(s) (help)
- ^ Lodge, Edmund (1877). The Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire as at Present Existing. Hurst and Blackett, Publishers. p. 742. Retrieved 17 March 2018.
- ^ Portrait in National Portrait Gallery catalogue
References
External links
- Use dmy dates from April 2012
- 1810 births
- 1888 deaths
- Baronets in the Baronetage of Great Britain
- Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Scottish constituencies
- Royal Navy admirals
- UK MPs 1874–1880
- Edmonstone family
- Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Stirling constituencies
- Deputy Lieutenants in Scotland