William Edmonstone
Admiral Sir William Edmonstone, 4th Baronet CB, DL, also 14th of Duntreath, was a Scottish naval commander, courtier and Conservative politician.Life
Born at Hampton, Edmonstone was Member of Parliament for Stirlingshire from 1874 to 1880, and an Aide-de-Camp to Queen Victoria. He was an admiral in the Royal Navy, and was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath.
Sir William Edmonstone died at home, 11 Ainslie Place on the Moray Estate in Edinburgh on 18 February 1888, and was succeeded in the 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, Greece, on 13 July 1841, Mary Elizabeth Parsons, daughter of Lieutenant-Colonel Parsons, CMG, who was British Resident on the island of Zante, at a time when the Ionian Islands were a British Protectorate. Mary Elizabeth and Sir William in all had eleven children, nine of whom survived into adulthood:
