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General George Ainslie was a Scottish general in the
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, the
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of the 13th (1st Somersetshire) Regiment of Foot (appointed on the 5 June 1789),Napoleon Series: 13th Foot
/ref> and lieutenant-governor of the
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, who died on 7 July 1804. He was a son of George Ainslie, Esq., the representative of the ancient Scottish family of Ainslie of
Dolphinton Dolphinton is a village and parish in Lanarkshire, Scotland. It is located northeast of Biggar, 11 miles (18 km) northeast of Carstairs, 10 miles (16 km) southwest of Leadburn and 27 miles (43 km) southwest of Edinburgh, on the ...
in
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, chief of the name, and Jane Ainslie, the daughter of Sir Philip Anstruther of Anstrutherfield. George and Jane Ainslie had seven children in total, including four daughters, three of whom were married and established in France. The brothers of the younger George Ainslie were Sir
Philip Ainslie Colonel Sir Philip Ainslie of Pilton (1728–1802) was a Scottish landowner. He was regimental Colonel of the 7th Dragoons. Life He was born in 1728 in Pilton, Edinburgh, the second son of George Ainslie (d.1773), a merchant who made a fortu ...
, who was born in 1728 and died on 19 June 1802, and
Sir Robert Ainslie, 1st Baronet Sir Robert Ainslie, 1st Baronet ( – 21 July 1812) was a List of diplomats of the United Kingdom to the Ottoman Empire, British ambassador to the Ottoman Empire (Ottoman Porte), orientalist and numismatist. He was a Member of Parliament (United ...
, who was an ambassador to the
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(Ottoman Porte), orientalist and numismatist, and a
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(MP) for the
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of
Milborne Port Milborne Port is a village, electoral ward and civil parish in Somerset, England, east of Sherborne, and in the South Somerset district. It has a population of 2,802. The parish includes the hamlets of Milborne Wick and Kingsbury Regis. The vil ...
in
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between 1796 and 1802. George Ainslie's grandson was
Thomas Corbett (Lincolnshire MP) Thomas George Corbett (1796 - 1868) was an English Member of Parliament, and High Sherriff of Lincolnshire in 1840. Background Thomas Corbett was the son of William Corbett (died 1832) of Darnhall and his wife Jane Eleanor, daughter of George A ...
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