Godfrey Bosville Macdonald, 3rd Baron Macdonald

Wikipedia Biographical Summary

"Lt.-General Godfrey Bosville Macdonald, 3rd Baron Macdonald of Slate (14 October 1775 Edinburgh, Scotland - 13 October 1832 Bridlington, England) was the second son of Alexander Macdonald, 1st Baron Macdonald (c.1745-1795) and Elizabeth Diana Bosville (1748–1789). He succeeded his elder brother Alexander Macdonald, 2nd Baron Macdonald, in the barony on 19 June 1824, after the former died unmarried and without legitimate issue.

On 29 December 1803 in Norwich, Norfolk, England, he married Louisa Maria La Coast (6 January 1782 Esher, Surrey, England - 10 February 1835 Bossall, Yorkshire, England), illegitimate daughter of Prince William Henry, Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh (1743–1805) and his mistress Lady Almeria Carpenter, a daughter of the Earl of Tyrconnell. They had three children born before their marriage (legitimized by Scottish law, but not by Irish law) and ten children born after their marriage. Their children, and their posterity, are the only descendants of Prince William Henry, Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh.

• Alexander William Robert Bosville (12 September 1800 - 22 September 1847); his daughter Julia married the 8th Baron Middleton
• William Macdonald (1801 - c. 1805)
• Louisa Bosville Macdonald (16 September 1802 - 1 September 1854); married John Hope, 5th Earl of Hopetoun. Her descendants are the Marquesses of Linlithgow
• Hon. Elizabeth Diana Bosville Macdonald (27 February 1804 - 9 June 1839)
• Hon. Julia Bosville Macdonald (30 October 1805 - 11 June 1884)
• Hon. Susan Hussey Bosville Macdonald (25 August 1807 - 5 November 1879)
• Godfrey William Wentworth Bosville-Macdonald, 4th Baron Macdonald (16 March 1809 - 25 July 1863)
• General Hon. James William Bosville Macdonald (born 31 October 1810)
• Hon. Diana Bosville Macdonald (12 April 1812 - 8 December 1880); her daughter Diana Smyth married Henry Lascelles, 4th Earl of Harewood
• Hon. Jane Bosville Macdonald (25 May 1815 - 13 January 1888)
• Hon. Marianne Bosville Macdonald (27 July 1816 - 12 July 1876); her daughter married the 3rd Earl of Eldon
• Hon. William Bosville Macdonald (27 September 1817 - 11 May 1847)
• Hon. Octavia Sophia Bosville Macdonald (c. 1819 - 22 January 1897)"

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