Sir Windham Carmichael-Anstruther, 8th Baronet
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Sir Windham Charles James Carmichael-Anstruther, 8th Baronet and 4th Baronet DL (1825 – 26 January 1898) was a
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politician and Scottish baronet. Born in
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, he was the son of
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and his wife, daughter of Edward Brice. In 1831, he succeeded his nephew Windham in two baronetcies. Carmichael-Anstruther was appointed a deputy lieutenant of
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in 1846 and became major of the Lanarkshire County Militia. He served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Southern Lanarkshire from 1874 until his defeat at the 1880 general election. In 1824, he married firstly the second daughter of Charles Wetherell. She died in 1841 and Carmichael-Anstruther married secondly the youngest daughter of Allan Williamson Grey later in that year.


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