Sir Archibald Edmonstone, 3rd Baronet (12 March 1795 – 15 March 1871) was a British traveller and writer.

Biography

Edmonstone, the eldest son of

Sir Charles Edmonstone, 2nd Baronet Sir Charles Edmonstone, 2nd Baronet (10 October 1764 – 1 April 1821), also 12th of Duntreath, was a Scottish politician. Edmonstone was the third son of Sir Archibald Edmonstone, 1st Baronet. He was educated at Eton College and subsequently at ...

, by his first wife Emma, fifth daughter of Richard Wilbraham Bootle of

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, Cheshire, and sister of

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, was born at 32 Great Russell Street, Bloomsbury,

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, on 12 March 1795, and entered

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in 1808. He removed in 1812 to Christ Church, Oxford, where he proceeded

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on 29 November 1816. In 1819 he went to

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, where he visited and explored two of the oases in the great desert, of which he published an account, with views and plans of the ruined temples and tombs. On the death of his father, 1 April 1821, he succeeded to the baronetcy, and fruitlessly contested his father's parliamentary constituency,

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, 24 May 1821. He died at 34

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, Belgrave Square, London, on 13 March 1871, leaving a personal fortune of £12,000. He married, on 10 October 1832, his

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Emma, third daughter of Randle Wilbraham of Rode Hall, Cheshire, and had issue three daughters, who all died in their infancy.

Publications

# ''A Journey to Two of the Oases of Upper Egypt'', 1822. # ''Leonora'', a tragedy in five acts and in verse, 1832. # ''Tragedies'', 1837. # ''The Christian Gentleman's Daily Walk'', 1840, 2nd edit. 1843, 3rd edit. 1850. # ''The Progress of Religion'', a poem, 1842. # ''Thoughts on the Observance of Lent'', 1848. # ''A Letter to the Bishop of Glasgow and Galloway on the Present Aspect of Church Matters'', 1850. # ''Meditations in Verse for the Sundays and Holydays throughout the Year'', 1853. # ''Devotional Reflections in Verse, arranged in accordance with the Church Calendar'', 1858. # ''Short Readings on the Collects'', 1861. # ''Spiritual Communings'', 1869.

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The Family Edmonstone of Duntreath
website, based upon a history of the family of Edmonstone of Duntreath, written by Sir Archibald Edmonstone, 3rd, Bt., completed in 1851 and privately published after his death. {{DEFAULTSORT:Edmonstone, Sir Archibald, 3rd Baronet 1795 births 1871 deaths People from Bloomsbury People educated at Eton College Alumni of Christ Church, Oxford Baronets in the Baronetage of Great Britain 19th-century British writers

Archibald Archibald is a masculine given name, composed of the Germanic elements '' erchan'' (with an original meaning of "genuine" or "precious") and ''bald'' meaning "bold". Medieval forms include Old High German and Anglo-Saxon . Erkanbald, bishop of ...