Lieut-Colonel William Anstruther-Gray FSA

Society of Antiquaries of Scotland

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 JP

Justice of the Peace

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 DL

Lord Lieutenant

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 (6 September 1859 – 17 April 1938) was a Scottish soldier and politician.

The son of Colonel John Anstruther-Thomson of Charleton

John Anstruther-Thomson of Charleton and Carntyne

Colonel John Anstruther-Thomson of Charleton and Carntyne VD DL JP He was the son of John Anstruther-Thomson of Charleton and Clementina Blair. He died at age 86. He would have inherited the title of the 18th Lord St...

, Colinsburgh, Fife, and Maria Hamilton Gray of Carntyne

Carntyne

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, Glasgow

Glasgow

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, he was educated at Eton

Eton College

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He adopted name of Gray on succeeding to the Carntyne estate in 1904.

He joined the Militia's Fife Artillery as a Sub-Lieutenant (Supernumerary) on 16 December 1876. He served for four years until he joined the 13th Hussars in 1880, and served in India and Afghanistan in 1880-1881 before transferring to the Royal Horse Guards

Royal Horse Guards

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 in 1885. He was Aide-de-Camp

Aide-de-camp

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 to the Earl of Kintore

Algernon Keith-Falconer, 9th Earl of Kintore

Algernon Hawkins Thogond Keith-Falconer, 9th Earl of Kintore PC, GCMG, was a British politician and colonial governor.-Biography:...

, Governor of South Australia, from 1889-1891. He served in South Africa from 1901-1902 where he was commandant of the district of Knysna

Knysna

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 in 1901, and Inspector of Concentration Camps in Transvaal in 1902. He later commanded 3rd Line Group, Scottish Horse

Scottish Horse

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 during World War I

World War I

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He was unsuccessful Unionist candidate for St Andrews Burghs

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 in 1903, and represented that constituency from 1906 - January 1910 and from December 1910-1918.

He married Clayre Tennant CBE JP, daughter of Andrew Tennant

Andrew Tennant (pastoralist)

Andrew Tennant was a Scottish-born Australian pastoralist, businessman and politician.-Early years:Andrew was born on 20 June 1835 at Hawick, Roxburghshire, Scotland, to John Tennant and his wife Jessie Aitken...

 of Essenside on 26 January 1891 at St. Peter's Church, Glenelg, South Australia

Glenelg, South Australia

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. They had one son, William John St Clair Anstruther-Gray, and one daughter.

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