Edmonstone Baronets

The Edmonstone Baronetcy, of Duntreath in the County of Stirling, is a title in the Baronetage of Great Britain. It was created 20 May 1774 for Archibald Edmonstone, 11th of Duntreath, Member of Parliament for Dumbartonshire and Ayr Burghs. He was succeeded by his third but eldest surviving son, the second Baronet. He represented Dumbartonshire and Stirlingshire in the House of Commons. On his death the title passed to his eldest son, the third Baronet. He was a writer and traveller. He died without surviving issue and was succeeded by his half-brother, the fourth Baronet. He was an Admiral in the Royal Navy and Member of Parliament.

The family seat is Duntreath Castle, Blanefield, Stirlingshire.

The historian Mary McGrigor is the sister of the seventh Baronet.

Edmonstone Baronets, of Duntreath (1774)

*Sir Archibald Edmonstone, 1st Baronet (10 October 1717-20 July 1807)

*Sir Charles Edmonstone, 2nd Baronet (10 October 1764-1 April 1821)

*Sir Archibald Edmonstone, 3rd Baronet (12 March 1795-15 March 1871)

*Sir William Edmonstone, 4th Baronet (29 January 1810-18 February 1888)

*Sir Archibald Edmonstone, 15th of Duntreath, 5th Baronet CVO DL (30 May 1867-1 April 1954). Groom in Waiting to H.M. King Edward VII 1907-10. He accompanied the King on his state visit to Leningrad in 1908. He was responsible for substantially rebuilding Duntreath to accommodate his distinguished visitors. Educated privately and at Oxford, Sir Archibald married Ida Agnes Eleanor Forbes (d. 21 december 1946), daughter of Sir George Stewart Forbes of Newe, ?th Baronet (related in male line to the mother of John Kerry and to the Barons Forbes of Newe), who was a Woman of the Bedchamber to H.R.H. Princess Christian, third daughter of Queen Victoria. They had three sons together. His youngest sister Alice, who married the Hon. George Keppel, was a mistress of King Edward VII and the great-grandmother of Camilla Parker-Bowles. Since his eldest son William was killed in action in 1916 in the Great War, he was succeeded by the second son Archibald Charles.

*Sir (Archibald) Charles "Charlie" Edmonstone, 16th of Duntreath, 6th Baronet (1894-1954). He married Gwendolyn Mary Field, daughter of Marshall Field Jr. and granddaughter of the Chicago businessman Marshall Field, and had issue including one son and three daughters. His younger brother was the Commander "Edward St John Edmonstone" RN ((1901-1983), a godson of King Edward VII (b. 3 November 1901), married 1936 to the Hon. Alicia Evelyn Browne (4 February 1909 – 26 July 1978), daughter of John Edward Deane Browne, 5th Baron Kilmaine and wife Lady Aline Kennedy, and had issue one son and one daughter (Helen) "Antonia Edmonstone" (b. 1937) a goddaughter of George, Duke of Kent [ [http://www.william1.co.uk/w148.htm Conqueror 148 ] ] , she is married and has three sons and a daughter.

*Sir Archibald Bruce Edmonstone, 17th of Duntreath, 7th Baronet (b. 1934). He has been twice married, firstly to Jane Colville, by whom he has two sons, and secondly to Juliet Elizabeth Deakin (b. 1943), daughter of a Major General, by whom he has a son Dru (creator of the family website) and Elyssa Juliet Edmonstone (b. Glasgow, 11 September 1973), now an Archduchess, married into a former imperial house. His sister is Mary McGrigor, or Lady McGrigor, a historian.

External links

* [http://www.edmonstone.com Family site] created by Dru Edmonstone, youngest son of the baronet, with Lady McGrigor's history of the family online. Accessed 7 October 2007.
* [http://www.paperclip.org.uk/kilsythweb/history/archivesources/Edmonstone_Duntreath.htm More information about the family] . Accessed 7 October 2007.

Notes

References

* [http://www.edmonstone.com/Pages/creabt.htm "Creation of the Baronetcy"]
*Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). "Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage" (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990.