William Murray Threipland
Colonel William Murray Threipland, JP (1866 – 24 June 1942) was a British Army officer. He was appointed the founding colonel commanding of the Welsh Guards in February 1915, and was the regiment's Colonel from March 1937.
He was born William Scott Kerr, but adopted the surname of Murray Threipland on 30 April 1882, following his inheritance of the estates of his cousin, Sir Patrick Murray Threipland, 5th Baronet. These included
captain on 23 October 1898.[1] He served in South Africa during the Second Boer War 1900–1902; he was part of a detachment sent to South Africa in March 1900 to reinforce the 3rd battalion.[2] After the end of the war, he retired from the Grenadier Guards in July 1902.[3] On 28 August 1909, Murray Threipland was appointed a deputy lieutenant of Caithness.[4]
On 26 February 1915, Murray Threipland, having been interviewed by
colonel on 12 March 1937.[10]
Murray Threipland was deputy lieutenant of Roxburgh. He married in 1899 Charlotte Eleanor, co-heiress of William Wyndham Lewis. Murray Threipland died on 24 June 1942.[11]
References
- Footnotes
- ^ Hart′s Army list, 1901
- ^ "The War - the Queen and the Grenadier Guards". The Times. No. 36090. London. 15 March 1900. p. 10.
- ^ "No. 27456". The London Gazette. 22 July 1902. p. 4672.
- ^ "No. 28288". The London Gazette. 14 September 1909. p. 6880.
- ^ Dudley Ward, p. 4
- ^ Nicholson & Lloyd-Williams, p. 36
- ^ "No. 29099". The London Gazette (Supplement). 13 March 1915. p. 2587.
- ^ Nicholson & Lloyd-Williams, p. 56
- ^ "No. 29608". The London Gazette (Supplement). 13 June 1916. p. 5569.
- ^ "No. 34379". The London Gazette. 12 March 1937. p. 1643.
- ^ "Murray-Threipland, Col William". WHO WAS WHO 2022. Retrieved 4 September 2022.
- Bibliography
- Dewar, Peter Beauclerk (2001). Burke's landed gentry of Great Britain (19 ed.). Burke's Peerage. p. 1332. ISBN 978-0-9711966-0-5.
- Dudley Ward, C H (1920). History of the Welsh guards. London: John Murray.
- Nicholson, Ivor; Lloyd-Williams, Trevor (1919). Wales: Its part in the War. London: Hodder and Stoughton.