William Mure (1830–1880)

For other people named William Mure, see William Mure (disambiguation).

William Mure
Member of Parliament
for Renfrewshire
In office
1874–1880
Preceded byArchibald Campbell
Succeeded byAlexander Crum
Personal details
Born(1830-05-09)9 May 1830
Caldwell, Ayrshire
Died9 November 1880(1880-11-09) (aged 50)
Political partyLiberal
Spouse
Constance Elizabeth Wyndham
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(m. 1859)​
RelationsDavid Mure (uncle)
Thomas Lister (nephew)
George Wyndham (father-in-law)
Children4
Parent(s)William Mure
Laura Markham
Military service
Branch/serviceScots Fusilier Guards
RankLieutenant-Colonel

William Mure, of Caldwell (9 May 1830 – 9 November 1880)[1] was a British soldier and Liberal Party[2] politician.[3]

Early life

Mure was the son of Laura Markham and William Mure (1799–1860), also a former MP for Renfrewshire.[4] He was the nephew of David Mure. His mother was the second daughter of William Markham of Becca Hall, Yorkshire, and the granddaughter of William Markham (1719–1807) the Archbishop of York from 1776 to 1807.[5]

Mure's sister, Emma (1833–1911), who married Thomas Lister, 3rd Baron Ribblesdale (1828–1876), was the mother of Thomas Lister, 4th Baron Ribblesdale,[6] whose second marriage was to the American heiress, Ava Lowle Willing (1868–1958), former wife of John Jacob Astor IV.[7][8]

Career

Mure reached the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel in the Scots Fusilier Guards.[9] He was elected at the 1874 general election as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Renfrewshire,[2] and reelected at the 1880 general election.

Personal life

In 1859, Mure married Constance Elizabeth Wyndham (d. 1920), daughter of George Wyndham, 1st Baron Leconfield and Mary Fanny Blunt, and sister of Henry Wyndham, 2nd Baron Leconfield. Her maternal grandfather was the Reverend William Blunt and her paternal grandfather was George Wyndham, 3rd Earl of Egremont. Together they had:[6]

Mure died on 9 November 1880, aged 50.[6][10]

References

  1. ^ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "R" (part 1)
  2. ^ a b Craig, F. W. S. (1989) [1977]. British parliamentary election results 1832–1885 (2nd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. p. 601. ISBN 0-900178-26-4.
  3. ^ "The Scottish Nation | Mure". www.electricscotland.com. Electric Scotland. Retrieved 12 March 2017.
  4. ^ "University of Glasgow :: Story :: Biography of William Mure of Caldwell". www.universitystory.gla.ac.uk. University of Glasgow. Retrieved 9 December 2016.
  5. ^ Moore, Dudley; Rowlands, Edward; Karadimas, Nektarios (17 March 2014). In Search of Agamemnon: Early Travellers to Mycenae. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. ISBN 9781443857765.
  6. ^ a b c "Lt.-Col. William Mure of Caldwell". www.thepeerage.com. The Peerage. Retrieved 12 March 2017.
  7. ^ "Lord Ribblesdale Dead". The New York Times. 22 October 1925. Retrieved 11 August 2008. Lord Ribblesdale, who wed in 1919 the late John Jacob Astor's first wife, the former Miss Ava L. Willing, known as Mrs. John Astor after she had divorced the New Yorker, died this morning at his mansion in Grosvener Square at the age of 71. His two sons had been killed in wars, and the barony is now extinct. He gave to the National Gallery as a memorial to his sons a portrait of himself in hunter's costume, done by Sargent.
  8. ^ "Ribblesdale". Time. 2 November 1925. Archived from the original on 19 February 2012. Retrieved 11 August 2008. He was 65 when he married Mr. Astor's wife (Ava Willing, Philadelphia). No children were born. One of the two fine sons of his earlier marriage was killed in Somaliland, one in Gallipoli. His title dies with him.
  9. ^ G.E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed., 13 volumes in 14 (1910-1959; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume XIII, page 27.
  10. ^ 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.
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Member of Parliament
for Renfrewshire
1874 – 1880 		Succeeded by