Sir Archibald Edmonstone of Duntreath, 5th Baronet

Biographical Summary

"Sir Archibald Edmonstone, Baronet [1774], of Duntreath, only s. (out of nine children) and h,, b. 30 May 1867, at Woolwich ; matric.at Oxford (Ch. Ch.), 23 Jan. 1886, aged 18; suc. to the Baronetcy, 18 Feb. 1888 ; sometime Lieut. 3d Batt. Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders' Militia. He m. 30 Nov. 1895, at St. Paul's, Knightsbridge, Ida Agnes, only da. of George Stewart Forbes, of Aslown (2d s. of Sir Charles Forbes, 3d Baronet [1823]), by Henrietta Maria, da. of the Hon. Humble Dudley Ward."

SOURCE: Complete baronetage; Cokayne, George E. (George Edward); 1906; Vol. V; page 171

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Sir Archibald Edmonstone, C.V.O., D.L., 15th of Duntreath, 5th Bt., 1888-1954. (b. 1967).

Groom in Waiting to Edward VII, 1907-1910. Cmdr. Order of Vasa (with star).

Leut. Argyll & Sutherland Hilanders.

m. 1895 Ida Agnes Eleanor, dau of Sir George Stewart Forbes, 3rd Bt of Newe.

   She was a Woman of the Bedchamber to Princess Christian. 

By her he had 3 sons:
1 William George, b.1896. Lieut. 2nd Bn. Coldstream Guards.
Killed in action in the Battle of the Somme, 15 Sept., 1916.
2 Archibald Charles, 6th Bt., b.1898. (See below).
3 Edward St John (for whom Edward VII stood proxy in person) b.1901.
Cmdr. R.N. Served in both World Wars. m. 1936 Hon. Alicia Evelyn Browne,
only dau. of 5th Baron Kilmaine, and had 1 son & 1 daughter.
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Commander Edmonstone died in 1984. His wife Alicia died in 1992.
Sir Archibald, 5th Bt., died in April, 1954 and was succeeded by his eldest surviving son.

His wife, Ida, had died in 1949.

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