Godfrey Macdonald, 3rd Baron Macdonald
Lt.-General Godfrey Bosville Macdonald, 3rd Baron Macdonald of Sleat (14 October 1775 – 13 October 1832) was a Scottish aristocrat.
Early life
Godfrey was born on 14 October 1775 in
His father, a younger son of Lady Margaret Montgomerie (a daughter of the 9th Earl of Eglinton) and Sir Alexander Macdonald, 7th Baronet, had succeeded to the baronetcy in 1766 following the death of his elder brother, Sir James Macdonald, 8th Baronet. His mother was the eldest daughter of Godfrey Bosville IV of Gunthwaite and of Thorpe Hall, Rudston, both in Yorkshire.[2]
He was educated at Harrow School, Harrow on the Hill, London, England. He matriculated Oriel College, University of Oxford, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, on 17 December 1792.[3]
Career
He gained the rank of ensign, in 1794, serving in the Loyal Kelso Regiment and the
He fought in the expedition to Ostend in 1798 and then in the British West Indies from 1801 to 1802. He fought in the recapture of the Cape of Good Hope between 1805 and 1806, under Sir David Baird, 1st Baronet. He fought in the Peninsular War in 1812.[citation needed]
Titles and name changes
He was the heir of his uncle William Bosville who died unmarried in 1813, having left him nearly the whole of his fortune and estates, including Gunthwaite in Yorkshire.[4] In accordance with the terms of the bequest, by royal licence on 11 April 1814 he changed his surname to Bosville and later on 20 July 1824 to Bosville-Macdonald.[citation needed]
Following the death of his elder brother Alexander Macdonald, 2nd Baron Macdonald on 19 June 1824, Godfrey succeeded to his father's titles after his brother died unmarried and without legitimate issue.[2]
Personal life
On 29 December 1803, Macdonald married
- Alexander William Robert Bosville (1800–1847), de jure 12th Baronet, who married Matilda Eliza Moffat Bayard, a daughter of Col. John Bayard.[3]
- William Macdonald (1801–c. 1805), who died young.[3]
- John Hope, 5th Earl of Hopetoun.
- Hon. Elizabeth Diana Bosville Macdonald (1804–1839), who married Duncan Davidson, 4th of Tulloch, a son of Henry Davidson of Tulloch, in 1825.[3]
- Hon. Julia Bosville Macdonald (1805–1884), who married the Rev. Charles Walter Hudson, a son of Harrington Hudson (MP for Helston) and Lady Anne Townshend (a daughter of the 1st Marquess Townshend), in 1838.[3]
- Hon. Susan Hussey Bosville Macdonald (1807–1879), who married Capt. Richard Beaumont, son of Col. Thomas Richard Beaumont (MP for Northumberland), in 1832.[6]
- 1st Marquess of Anglesey).[3]
- Hon. James William Bosville Macdonald (1810–1882), a Lieutenant-General who was Private Secretary to Prince George, Duke of Cambridge; he married Hon. Elizabeth Nina Blake, daughter of Joseph Blake, 3rd Baron Wallscourt, in 1859.[7]
- Hon. Diana Bosville Macdonald (1812–1880), who married City of York who was a son of John Henry Smyth (MP for Cambridge University) and Lady Elizabeth FitzRoy (a daughter of the 4th Duke of Grafton), in 1837.[3]
- Hon. Jane Bosville Macdonald (1815–1888), who died unmarried.[3]
- Hon. Marianne Bosville Macdonald (1816–1876), who married Capt. Henry Martin Turnor, a son of Edmund Turnor, in 1840.[3]
- Hon. William Bosville Macdonald (1817–1847), who married Sophia Keppel.[3]
- Hon. Octavia Sophia Bosville Macdonald (c. 1819–1897), who married William James Hope Johnstone, the eldest son of John Hope-Johnstone, de jure 7th Earl of Annandale and Hartfell, in 1841.[3]
Three of his children with Louisa were born before their marriage, so they were considered illegitimate, while the ten children born after their marriage were considered legitimate. The eldest three were eventually legitimized by Scottish law, but not by Irish law, therefore, the Scottish baronetcy passed to his eldest son, Alexander, while the Irish barony passed to his third son, Godfrey.[8]
Lord Macdonald died on 13 October 1832 at Bridlington, in England. His widow, the dowager Lady Macdonald, died on 10 February 1835, at Bossall, Yorkshire.
Descendants
Through his eldest son Alexander, he was a grandfather of Godfrey Wentworth Bayard Bosville, de jure 13th Baronet, who married Hon. Harriet Cassandra Willoughby (sister to the 8th Baron Middleton);[9][10] and Hon. Julia Louisa Bosville (1824–1901), who married Henry Willoughby, 8th Baron Middleton.[3]
Through his eldest daughter Louisa,
Through his daughter Diana, he was a grandfather of Diana Smyth, who married Henry Lascelles, 4th Earl of Harewood.[3]
Through his daughter Marianne, he was a grandfather of Henrietta Turnor, who married John Scott, 3rd Earl of Eldon.[3]
Through his youngest daughter Octavia, he was posthumously a grandfather of
References
- U.K.: The Bodley Head, 1999), page 279.
- ^ Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume VIII, page 340.
- ^ Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003, volume 2, page 2474.
- ^ Barker, G.F.R. . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 05. pp. 427–428.
- ^ Anthony Camp, Royal Mistresses and Bastards 1714–1936 (2007) 104–111
- Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 1999, volume 1, page 61.
- Burkes Peerage Ltd, 1976, page 120.
- ^ Stirling, Anna Maria Wilhelmina (1914). Macdonald of the Isles; A romance of the past and present. London: J. Murray. p. 51 note 1.
- ^ "Macdonald of the Isles, Sir Alexander Wentworth Macdonald Bosville". Who's Who. A & C Black. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ISBN 978-1-4556-0233-9.
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