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Admiral Sir William Edmonstone, 4th Baronet CB, DL (29 January 1810 – 18 February 1888), also 14th of Duntreath, was a Scottish naval commander, courtier and Conservative politician.
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Admiral Sir William Edmonstone, 4th Baronet CB, DL (29 January 1810 – 18 February 1888), also 14th of Duntreath, was a Scottish naval commander, courtier and Conservative politician.
Life
Born atHampton
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, Edmonstone joined the Royal Navy in his teenage years, serving as a midshipman on the frigate HMS ''Sybelle'' and was subsequently was promoted Commodore. On return from naval service off West Africa he was made an Aide-de-Camp to Queen Victoria
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and appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath
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(CB). He went on to serve with the rank of Captain as Superintendent of Woolwich Dockyard
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. He was promoted Rear-Admiral
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on 3 July 1869, the day before he retired from the Royal Navy, a common practice at that time. He was elected Member of Parliament
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for Stirlingshire
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from 1874 to 1880. During this time he stayed at the family seat Duntreath Castle, Blanefield
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, Stirlingshire.
Sir William Edmonstone died at home, 11 Ainslie Place on the Moray Estate
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Built on an awkward and steeply sloping site, it has been described as a masterpiece of urban planning.
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in Edinburgh
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on 18 February 1888, and was succeeded in the Edmonstone baronetcy by his only surviving son, Archibald Edmonstone. Lady Edmonstone died at Cramond House north-west of Edinburgh, on 11 August 1902.
Family
Edmonstone married at Zakynthos
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, Greece, on 13 July 1841, Mary Elizabeth Parsons (Newburn, Fife
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, 21 June 1823 – Cramond House, Midlothian
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, 11 August 1902), daughter of Lieutenant-Colonel
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Parsons, CMG, who was British Resident on the island of Zante
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, at a time when the Ionian Islands were a British Protectorate
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. Mary Elizabeth and Sir William in all had eleven children, nine of whom survived into adulthood:
* Mary Emma Frances (1842–1847), died when she was five
* Archibald Edmonstone, died in infancy; their second son (see below) bore the same name.
* Jessie Edmondstone ( b.1848, m. 1884 Major Edward John Winnington-Ingram (d.1892). d. 10 June 1937)
* Louisa Ann Edmonstone (b. 1844 m.1872 Major General Henry Pipon CB, Governor of the Tower of London
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d. 1921) .
* Charlotte Henrietta Edmonstone (d. 21 October 1931), married in 1866 John Francis Kitson
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* Frances Euphemia Edmonstone (b. 1850, m.1873 Alexander Robert Duncan of Parkhill, Angus, factor of Duntreath. d. 14 February 1921)
* Sophia Edmonstone ( b. 1852, m. 1880 James Edward Hope of Belmont, Midlothian. d. 19 February 1924)
* Susanna Emily Edmonstone ( b. 1855, m.1885 Jonathan Bucknill. d. 9 May 1886)
* Mary Clementina Edmondstone (b.1857 m 1874 Andrew Graham Murray
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, Viscount Dunedin. d. 2 December 1922)
* Sir Archibald Edmonstone of Duntreath, 5th Bt. (30 May 1867 – 1 April 1954)
* Alice Frederica Edmonstone/ref> (b.29 April 1868 m 1 June 1891 Lt Col George Keppel. d, 11 September 1947), a British socialite and one of the many
mistresses
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of Edward VII of the United Kingdom
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; her great-granddaughter, Queen Camilla
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(née Shand, born 17 July 1947), was the mistress of and now second wife of Charles III
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See also
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References
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