Lt.-General Godfrey Bosville Macdonald, 3rd Baron Macdonald of Sleat (14 October 1775

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) was the second son of

Alexander Macdonald, 1st Baron Macdonald Alexander Macdonald, 1st Baron Macdonald (c. 1745 – 12 September 1795), was a Scottish nobleman and Chief of Clan MacDonald of Sleat. Macdonald was the younger son of Sir Alexander Macdonald, 7th Baronet, and his wife Lady Margaret (née Montg ...

(c.1745–1795) and Elizabeth Diana Bosville (1748–1789). He succeeded his elder brother

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, in the barony on 19 June 1824, after the former died unmarried and without legitimate issue.

Education

He was educated at

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. He matriculated

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, on 17 December 1792.

Career

He gained the rank of ensign, in 1794, serving in the Loyal Kelso Regiment and the

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. He then gained the rank of captain, in 1796, serving in the

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and the rank of lieutenant, that same year, while serving with the

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. He then gained the ranks of major, in the service of the

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, and lieutenant-colonel, in the service of the

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. He gained the rank of lieutenant-colonel in 1808 in the service of the

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. He gained the ranks of brevet colonel, in 1811, the rank of major-general, in 1814, and of lieutenant-general, in 1830. He fought in the

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in 1798 and then in the

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from 1801 to 1802. He fought in the recapture of the

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between 1805 and 1806, under

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. He fought in the

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in 1812.

Marriage and issue

On 29 December 1803 in

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, he married

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(4 February 1781,

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– 10 February 1835,

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), said to have been the illegitimate daughter of

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(1743–1805) and Lady

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, a daughter of

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, but baptised at Leatherhead in 1781 as the daughter of Farley Edser. They had three children born before their marriage (legitimized by Scottish law, but not by Irish law) and ten children born after their marriage. * Alexander William Robert Bosville (12 September 1800 – 22 September 1847); his daughter Julia married the 8th Baron Middleton * William Macdonald (1801 – c. 1805) * Louisa Bosville Macdonald (16 September 1802 – 1 September 1854); married

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. Her descendants are the

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* Hon. Elizabeth Diana Bosville Macdonald (27 February 1804 – 9 June 1839) * Hon. Julia Bosville Macdonald (30 October 1805 – 11 June 1884) * Hon. Susan Hussey Bosville Macdonald (25 August 1807 – 5 November 1879) * Godfrey William Wentworth Bosville-Macdonald, 4th Baron Macdonald (16 March 1809 – 25 July 1863) * General Hon. James William Bosville Macdonald (born 31 October 1810) * Hon. Diana Bosville Macdonald (12 April 1812 – 8 December 1880); her daughter Diana Smyth married

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* Hon. Jane Bosville Macdonald (25 May 1815 – 13 January 1888) * Hon. Marianne Bosville Macdonald (27 July 1816 – 12 July 1876); married Captain Henry Martin Turnor, son of Edmund Turnor; their daughter married the 3rd Earl of Eldon * Hon. William Bosville Macdonald (27 September 1817 – 11 May 1847) * Hon. Octavia Sophia Bosville Macdonald (c. 1819 – 22 January 1897)

Inheritance and name changes

He was the heir of his uncle

William Bosville Colonel William Bosville (1745–1813), Fellow of the Royal Society, FRS, of New Hall, Gunthwaite, of Thorpe Hall,Papers of the Bosville-Macdonald Family of Gunthwaite, Thorpe and Skye Rudston, both in Yorkshire, and of 76 Welbeck Street, St ...

who died unmarried in 1813, having left him nearly the whole of his fortune and estates, including

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in Yorkshire.Dictionary of National Biography, 1885–1900, Volume 05, Bosville, William by George Fisher Russell Barke

/ref> In accordance with the terms of the bequest, by royal licence on 11 April 1814 he changed his surname to Bosville and later on 20 July 1824 to Bosville-Macdonald.

Notes

References

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