William Aislabie (3 December 1671 – 10 November 1725) was a

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governor of the

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during the days of the

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Life

Aislabie was the fifth son of George Aislabie, of Studley Royal, and brother of

John Aislabie John Aislabie or Aslabie (; 4 December 167018 June 1742), of Studley Royal, near Ripon, Yorkshire, was a British politician who sat in the English and British House of Commons from 1695 to 1721. He was of an independent mind, and did not stick r ...

. He was deputy Governor from 1704, following the death of

John Burniston John Burniston was the Deputy Governor of Bombay from 1690 to 1704. He left a widow named Carolina. One of their daughters was Sarah, wife of William Pownall and mother of Thomas Pownall, governor of Massachusetts Bay and South Carolina.Edward J ...

. He assumed the post of Governor in September 1708 and left office on 11 October 1715. He served as Member of Parliament for from the end of 1719 to 1722. At the end of his life, his brother

bought the

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estate from the Coldham family and set about building a house there for him. Unfortunately William died around the time the house was ready and the Waverley estate was sold.

Family

Aislabie married a daughter of John Burniston. Their son William married in 1728 Elizabeth Scattergood, daughter of the merchant John Scattergood. The army officer John Aislabie (born 1729) was their son.''6 Eliz Pine. Thomas Whitley, quer., and Henry Kent, Richard Kent etc'' (PDF)
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References

Governors of Bombay 18th-century British people 1671 births 1725 deaths {{England-diplomat-stub