William Mure (1830–1880)

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

William Mure
Member of Parliament for Renfrewshire
In office 1874 – 1880
Preceded by	Archibald Campbell
Succeeded by	Alexander Crum
Personal details
Born	9 May 1830 Caldwell, Ayrshire
Died	9 November 1880 (aged 50)
Political party	Liberal
Spouse(s)	Constance Elizabeth Wyndham ​ ​ (m. 1859; his death 1880)​
Relations	David Mure (uncle) Thomas Lister (nephew) George Wyndham (father-in-law)
Children	4
Parents	William Mure Laura Markham
Military service
Branch/service	Scots Fusilier Guards
Rank	Lieutenant-Colonel

Early life

He was the son of Laura Markham and William Mure (1799–1860), also a former MP for Renfrewshire.[4] Mure 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]

His sister, Emma Mure (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

He 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 was re-elected at the 1880 general election. He died later that year, aged 50.[1]

Personal life

In 1859, he 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 O'Brien Wyndham, 3rd Earl of Egremont. Together they had:[6]

• Lt.-Col. William Mure of Caldwell (d. 1912), who married Lady Georgiana Theresa Montgomerie (d. 1938), daughter of George Montgomerie, 15th Earl of Eglinton, 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.[6][10]

References

1. Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "R" (part 1)
2. 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. "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. 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

External links

• Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by William Mure