William Mure, of Caldwell (9 May 1830 – 9 November 1880) was a British soldier and

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politician.

Early life

He was the son of Laura Markham and William Mure (1799–1860), also a former MP for Renfrewshire. Mure was the nephew of David Mure. His mother was the second daughter of William Markham of Becca Hall,

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, and the granddaughter of William Markham (1719–1807) the

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from 1776 to 1807. His sister, Emma Mure (1833–1911), who married

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(1828–1876), was the mother of

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, whose second marriage was to the American heiress, Ava Lowle Willing (1868–1958), former wife of

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Career

He reached the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel in the

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. He was elected at the 1874 general election as the

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(MP) for

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, and was re-elected at the 1880 general election. He died later that year, aged 50.

Personal life

In 1859, he married Constance Elizabeth Wyndham (d. 1920), daughter of

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and Mary Fanny Blunt, and sister of

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. Her maternal grandfather was the Reverend William Blunt and her paternal grandfather was George O'Brien Wyndham, 3rd Earl of Egremont. Together they had: * Lt.-Col. William Mure of Caldwell (d. 1912), who married Lady Georgiana Theresa Montgomerie (d. 1938), daughter of

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, in 1895. * Constance Madeline Emma Mure (d. 1961), who married Edward Lawrence Peel (1860–1936), the son of Sir Charles Lennox Peel, in 1905. * Marjorie Caroline Susan Mure (d. 1961), who married John Michael Gordon Biddulph, 2nd Baron Biddulph (1869–1949), in 1896. * Mary Laura Florence Mure (d. 1932), who married Sir Spencer John Portal, 4th Bt. (1864–1955), in 1890. Mure died on 9 November 1880.H. Pirie-Gordon, editor, '' Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry'', 15th edition, (London, England: Burke's Peerage Ltd, 1937), p. 1651

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Mure, William 1830 births 1880 deaths Scottish Liberal Party MPs Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Scottish constituencies UK MPs 1874–1880 UK MPs 1880–1885 Scots Guards officers