Lieutenant General William Wemyss

From Freereg: marriage of W Wemyss and Isabella Hay

• groom: Lieutenant Colonel W Wemyss, son of General William Wemyss
• bride: Isabella Hay, daughter of Hay, Earl of Errol
• married: Saturday, 14 April 1821 at Parish Church, [possibly - but see notes below] St Adrian's Church, Main Street, West Wemyss, Fife KY1 4SR 56.1419, -3.0832
• notes: Married at Huntley by Rev Mr Walker - Episcopal Clergyman - Bride's father deceased - mother is Alicia daughter of Samuel Elliot Esquire

From British Newspaper Archive: Morning Post Tuesday, 30 November 1852 Page 5 Fashionable World

We have authority to state that the announcement of the death of General Wemyss, on Saturday, 27 November 1852, in our paper of yesterday, Friday, 26 November 1852, is incorrect. The general is exceedingly ill, but up to a late hour yesterday the mournful tidings had not reached his nearest friends in London.

From British Newspaper Archive: Bury and Norwich Post Wednesday, 1 December 1852 Page 4 Bury and Norwich Post, and Suffolk Herald

On [ERROR Monday, 27 December 1852] [inst.], at Cumberland-lodge, Windsor Great Park, aged 63, Lieutenant General Wemyss. He was present at the engagement of Fuentes d'Onor, on Sunday, 5 May 1811. Soon after the marriage of her Majesty, General Wemyss was appointed Clerk-Marshal to Prince Albert, and in that capacity had the entire control and management of his Royal Highness's extensive equestrian and agricultural establishments. General Wemyss was also one of the Equerries to her Majesty. By his death the colonelcy of the 93rd Regiment is placed at the disposal of Lord Hardinge.

From British Newspaper Archive: Morning Herald (London) Wednesday, 1 December 1852 Page 5 Death of Major General Wemyss. (from a correspondent) Windsor, Tuesday.

Major General Wemyss expired this morning Tuesday, 30 November 1852, at half-past six o'clock, at his residence, Cumberland Lodge, in Windsor Great Park, after the most painful sufferings, which he bore with the most admirable fortitude, patience, and Christian resignation.

The disease which proved fatal to General Wemyss was not fistula, as has been stated — fistula, though a painful malady, generally not being such as to entail fatal consequences on the patient — but a malignant and far more afflictive disease, viz., morbid fungoid growth in the rectum — a malady which invariably has a fatal termination; and, in fact, its deadly character and early fatal result was pronounced with certainty from the moment it was first seen by his principal medical adviser.

Lady Isabella Wemyss, Lady Erroll, and Mr. Ellison, the medical attendant, were present when the gallant general breathed his last. He was in the 63rd year of his age, and will be buried in the family vault at Wimbledon, near Kingston.

From findagrave: Lt Gen William Wemyss (1790-1852)

• Name: Lieutenant General William Wemyss
• Born: 1790
• Died: Tuesday, 30 November 1852 (aged 61–62)
• Buried: [St Mary's Churchyard, St Mary's Road, Wimbledon, London SW19 7BP 51.42841, -0.21094]
• Inscription: Aged 62 years
• About: Colonel of the 93rd Highlanders

From Historical records of the 93rd Sutherland Highlanders by Roderick Hamilton Burgoyne Published 1883 Page 475

William Wemyss, son of the first colonel. Major, Thursday, 27 May 1813; Lieutenant Colonel, 16 March 1815. (1816.) He became a Major General, Tuesday, 23 November 1841, and was appointed colonel of the 93rd, Wednesday, 10 April 1850. He had served as A.D.C to Sir William Erskine on the Walcheren expedition in 1809; campaigns of Monday, 12 November 1810, in the Peninsula, including the actions of Sobral, Pombal, Redinha, Miranda de Corvo, Fos d'Aronce, and Sabugal, battle of Fuentes d'Onor, surprise of the French at Arroyo de Molino, and storming of Ponte d'Almaras under Lord Hill. He received the silver medal with clasp for Fuentes d'Onor. Lieutenant General, Tuesday, 11 November 1851. He died at Windsor, on Tuesday, 30 November 1852.