See also
Husband:
David Maitland-Makgill-Crichton (1854-1889)
Wife:
Emily Drummond Bailey (1854-1933)
Children:
Anna Campbell Margaret Emily Maitland-Makgill-Crichton (1876-1954)
Evelyn Bertie Charlotte Maitland-Makgill-Crichton (c. 1878-1936)
Marriage:
9 Dec 1875
Steyning, Sussex
Name:
David Maitland-Makgill-Crichton
Sex:
Male
Father:
Charles Julian Maitland-Makgill-Crichton (1828-1858)
Mother:
Anna Campbell Jarvis (1832-1907)
Note:
Death of a Military Officer. — David Maitland-Makgill-Crichton, late Lieutenant 78th Highlanders and 12th Lancers, died at Ventnor on Christmas Day. Deceased (who was only 35 years of age) had been ill for some years, death ensuing from paralysis of the brain. Ho was born at Rankeilor-Makgill, county Fife, and was heir general to Viscount Frendraught, Baron Crichton, and through the Earls (formerly Dukes) of Lauderdale, the Makgills, Princes of Munster, and the Crichtons, represented some of the oldest families in Great Britain. The body has been removed to Fifeshire, for interment in the family vault. He leaves a wife and five children, the heir being nine years of age.
Isle of Wight Observer - Saturday 04 January 1890
Birth:
24 May 1854
Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland
Census:
1881 (age 26-27)
Late Lieutenant of 78th Highlanders, now reserve officer, Ryarsh House, Malling, Kent
Death fact:
1889 (age 34-35)
1889 Dec Qtr, Isle of Wight, 2b/382 (aged 35)
Death:
25 Dec 1889 (age 35)
Cove Cottage, Ventnor, Isle of Wight, Hampshire
Name:
Emily Drummond Bailey
Sex:
Female
Father:
Charles Drummond Smith Bailey (c. 1811-1869)
Mother:
Charlotte Burbidge (1820-1902)
Note:
MAITLAND-MAKGILL-CRICHTON Emily of Flat 6 Southside St. Leonards-on-Sea widow died 14 July 1933. Probate London 19 September to Anna Campbell Margaret Emily Gibbon (wife of the reverend Henry Gibbon). Effects £474 7s. 1d.
Birth:
1854
Bath, Somerset
Baptism:
27 Oct 1854 (age 0)
St Swithin, Walcot, Bath, Somerset
Birth fact:
1854 (age 0)
GRO Reference: 1854 D Quarter in BATH Volume 05C Page 653 (Emily Bailey)
Census (1):
1861 (age 6-7)
Living with parents
Census (2):
1881 (age 26-27)
Wife in household
Census (3):
1891 (age 36-37)
Staying with sister Alice & William Jackson, 6 Castle Hill Avenue, Folkestone, Kent (widow)
Death:
14 Jul 1933 (age 78-79)
Flat 6, Southside, St Leonards-on-Sea, Sussex
Name:
Anna Campbell Margaret Emily Maitland-Makgill-Crichton
Sex:
Female
Spouse:
Henry Gibbon (1859-1947)
Children:
Henry Denys Gibbon (1909-1990)
Patrick Crichton Gibbon (1913-1977)
Note:
GIBBON Anna Campbell Margaret Emily of 55 Park Hill Road Sidcup Kent widow died 7 April 1954. Probate London 6 August to Henry Denys Gibbon electrical engineer Cyril Robert Maitland Gibbon bank cashier and Patrick Crichton Gibbon civil servant. Effects £872 16s. 8d.
Birth:
29 Jun 1876
Dover, Kent
Census (1):
1881 (age 4-5)
Living with parents
Residence:
17 Oct 1907 (age 31)
23 Bentinck St, W. (on marriage cert.)
Census (2):
1911 (age 34-35)
Wife in household (married 3 years, 1 child, 1 living)
Death:
7 Apr 1954 (age 77)
55 Park Hill Road, Sidcup, Kent
Name:
Evelyn Bertie Charlotte Maitland-Makgill-Crichton
Sex:
Female
Spouse:
Kenelm Pleydell-Bouverie (1852-1921)
Note:
PLEYDELL-BOUVERIE Evelyn Bertie Charlotte otherwise Evelyn of Furness Cottage Furness Road Eastbourne widow died 24 March 1936. Administration (with Will) London 25 May to Ralph Kenelm Pleydell-Bouverie of no occupation and Bertrand Eric Pleydell-Bouverie student. Effects £10859 17s. 10d.
Birth:
c. 1878
Inverness, Scotland
Census:
1881 (age 2-3)
Living with parents
Death:
24 Mar 1936 (age 57-58)
Furness Cottage, Furness Road, Eastbourne, Sussex
Name:
Mary Scott Maitland-Makgill-Crichton
Sex:
Female
Spouse:
Robert Edward Fitzmayer Wemyss (1871-1956)
Note:
WEMYSS Mary Scott of Afton Springfield Road Camberley Surrey (wife of Robert Edward Fitzmayer Wemyss) died 21 January 1923 at The Gables Doverhay Luccombe Somersetshire. Administration (with Will) London 30 November to the said Robert Edward Fitzmayer Wemyss retired major H.M. army. Effects £2721 9s. 1d.
Birth:
1879
Isleworth, Middlesex
Birth fact:
1879 (age 0)
GRO Reference: 1879 M Quarter in BRENTFORD Volume 03A Page 49
Census:
1881 (age 1-2)
Living with parents
Death:
21 Jan 1923 (age 43-44)
The Gables, Doverhay, Luccombe, Somerset
Name:
Charles Julian Maitland-Makgill-Crichton
Sex:
Male
Spouse:
Sybil Twynihoe Erle (1878-1984)
Children:
David Maitland-Makgill-Crichton (1903-1903)
Mary Sylvia Maitland-Makgill-Crichton (1905-1994)
Charles Frederick Andrew Maitland-Makgill-Crichton (1907-1933)
Douglas Maitland-Makgill-Crichton (1909-1968)
Rosemary Julian Maitland-Makgill-Crichton (1915-2010)
Note 1 (shared):
In Memory of Major CHARLES JULIAN MAITLAND-MAKGILL-CRICHTON
10th Bn., Gordon Highlanders
who died age 35 between 25 September 1915 and 27 September 1915
Son of David and Emily Maitland-Makgill-Crichton; husband of Sybil Maitland-Makgill-Crichton, of Craigentor, Crieff, Perthshire.
Remembered with honour, LOOS MEMORIAL
Commemorated in perpetuity by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission
Note 2:
CRICHTON, Charles Julian Maitland MAKGILL, Monzie Castle, Crieff, Major, died 26 September 1915, at Loos, France, testate. Confirmation granted at Perth, 18 August 1917, to Sybil Twynihoe Erle or Makgill Crichton, Monzie Castle aforesaid, his widow, Executrix nominated in Will or Deed, dated 22 April 1906, and Codicils, dated 16 September 1907 and 26 February 1910, and recorded with other Write in Court Books of Commissariot of Perth, 18 August 1917. Value of Estate, £8645 13s. 10d.
Note 3:
Born at Folkestone, he was the elder son of David Maitland-Makgill-Crichton, of Rankeillor, , near Cupar, Fife, and Emily Maitland-Makgill-Crichton (daughter of Charles Drummond Bailey, of Charlton Musgrove, Somerset). He entered Mr. Bramston’s House from a preparatory school at St. Neots, reaching Sixth Book and becoming a House Prefect. After Winchester he went on to Trinity College, Cambridge.
He served with the Hampshire Imperial Yeomanry in the Boer War, and went on to be a Lieutenant in 3rd (Militia) Battalion, Seaforth Highlanders. He was gazetted to the regular army in 1901, but resigned his commission on succeeding to his father’s estates. He was a member of the Royal Company of Archers, the King’s Bodyguard for Scotland.
On February 15th 1902 he married Miss Sybil Twynihoe Erle, of Craigentor, Crieff, Perthshire, the daughter of Mr. Twynihoe William Erle (Coll.1840), formerly Master of the Supreme Court. He was therefore brother-in-law of Captain Christopher Erle (died on active service 10/2/1917 - see individual entry). The couple lived at Monzie Castle, Perthshire, and Lathrisk and Largo, Fife, and from 1910 at Ellwood Ranch, Santa Barbara, California. In January 1903 their son David was born, but he died a month later, and it was not until four years later that an heir was born. When he died, Maitland-Makgill-Crichton left two sons and a daughter: Mary Sylvia (July 2nd 1905); Charles Frederic Andrew (born April 3rd 1907, K1920-1925); and Douglas (born April 24th 1909, K1922-1927). A second daughter, Rosemary Julian Maitland-Makgill-Crichton, was born on December 5th 1915, after her father’s death.
On the outbreak of war he volunteered for service and on 20th September was gazetted Captain of 6th Battalion Cameron Highlanders, although the following March he briefly transferred, with the temporary rank of Major, to 11th Battalion Gordon Highlanders. He went to France, with the 10th Battalion, on 7th July 1915. He fell at Loos on 25th September 1915. At first he was posted missing, and one of his company commanders wrote: "I should like to say that Major Crichton, during the period that I was under his command, earned my everlasting admiration and gratitude for the help he was always ready to give me in my difficulties, and the tolerance with which he treated my far too frequent blunders. I shall await the news of him, which, I trust, we shall soon receive, as not merely of my trusted commander, but of my valued friend." However, the news eventually received was not good. A German officer, who had searched Maitland-Makgill-Crichton’s body and removed photographs of his wife and children, sent them back to his widow with a covering letter: "In handing you the enclosed photos and papers which were found on the body of the late Major Crichton, I consider it but my duty to tell you that the Major fell as a hero at the head of his battalion, after having taken Hill 70, east of Loos, by assault. When the hill was retaken by us, his body and those of many of his comrades remained in our hands. From his wound, it appears that death was instantaneous, so that he has not suffered. We laid him at rest in a soldier’s grave." This grave was never located, and Maitland-Makgill-Crichton is commemorated on panels 115 to 119 of the Loos Memorial.
https://www.winchestercollegeatwar.com/RollofHonour.aspx?RecID=316&TableName=ta_wwifactfile
Birth:
5 Sep 1880
Folkestone, Kent
Birth fact:
1880 (age 0)
GRO Reference: 1880 D Quarter in ELHAM Volume 02A Page 919
Census:
1881 (age 0-1)
Living with parents (aged 6 months)
Death:
25 Sep 1915 (age 35)
France
Name:
James Henry Maitland-Makgill-Crichton
Sex:
Male
Spouse:
Emily Christine Weir McColl (1884-1972)
Note:
MAITLAND-MAKGILL-CRICHTON James Henry of Toowoombus Brisbane Queensland Australia died 8 March 1948. Probate London 3 September to Edward Swinton Wodehouse Isaac solicitor. Effects £1856 11s. 4d. in England.
Birth:
19 May 1885
St Andrews, Fife, Scotland
Census:
1891 (age 5-6)
Living with grandmother Charlotte Bailey, Hove, Sussex
Occupation:
1914 (age 28-29)
Lieutenant Commander, HMS Agincourt
Emigration:
1922 (age 36-37)
from To New Zealand as a missionary
Death:
8 Mar 1948 (age 62)
Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Death of a Military Officer. — David Maitland-Makgill-Crichton, late Lieutenant 78th Highlanders and 12th Lancers, died at Ventnor on Christmas Day. Deceased (who was only 35 years of age) had been ill for some years, death ensuing from paralysis of the brain. Ho was born at Rankeilor-Makgill, county Fife, and was heir general to Viscount Frendraught, Baron Crichton, and through the Earls (formerly Dukes) of Lauderdale, the Makgills, Princes of Munster, and the Crichtons, represented some of the oldest families in Great Britain. The body has been removed to Fifeshire, for interment in the family vault. He leaves a wife and five children, the heir being nine years of age.
Isle of Wight Observer - Saturday 04 January 1890
MAITLAND-MAKGILL-CRICHTON Emily of Flat 6 Southside St. Leonards-on-Sea widow died 14 July 1933. Probate London 19 September to Anna Campbell Margaret Emily Gibbon (wife of the reverend Henry Gibbon). Effects £474 7s. 1d.
GIBBON Anna Campbell Margaret Emily of 55 Park Hill Road Sidcup Kent widow died 7 April 1954. Probate London 6 August to Henry Denys Gibbon electrical engineer Cyril Robert Maitland Gibbon bank cashier and Patrick Crichton Gibbon civil servant. Effects £872 16s. 8d.
PLEYDELL-BOUVERIE Evelyn Bertie Charlotte otherwise Evelyn of Furness Cottage Furness Road Eastbourne widow died 24 March 1936. Administration (with Will) London 25 May to Ralph Kenelm Pleydell-Bouverie of no occupation and Bertrand Eric Pleydell-Bouverie student. Effects £10859 17s. 10d.
WEMYSS Mary Scott of Afton Springfield Road Camberley Surrey (wife of Robert Edward Fitzmayer Wemyss) died 21 January 1923 at The Gables Doverhay Luccombe Somersetshire. Administration (with Will) London 30 November to the said Robert Edward Fitzmayer Wemyss retired major H.M. army. Effects £2721 9s. 1d.
In Memory of Major CHARLES JULIAN MAITLAND-MAKGILL-CRICHTON
10th Bn., Gordon Highlanders
who died age 35 between 25 September 1915 and 27 September 1915
Son of David and Emily Maitland-Makgill-Crichton; husband of Sybil Maitland-Makgill-Crichton, of Craigentor, Crieff, Perthshire.
Remembered with honour, LOOS MEMORIAL
Commemorated in perpetuity by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission
CRICHTON, Charles Julian Maitland MAKGILL, Monzie Castle, Crieff, Major, died 26 September 1915, at Loos, France, testate. Confirmation granted at Perth, 18 August 1917, to Sybil Twynihoe Erle or Makgill Crichton, Monzie Castle aforesaid, his widow, Executrix nominated in Will or Deed, dated 22 April 1906, and Codicils, dated 16 September 1907 and 26 February 1910, and recorded with other Write in Court Books of Commissariot of Perth, 18 August 1917. Value of Estate, £8645 13s. 10d.
Born at Folkestone, he was the elder son of David Maitland-Makgill-Crichton, of Rankeillor, , near Cupar, Fife, and Emily Maitland-Makgill-Crichton (daughter of Charles Drummond Bailey, of Charlton Musgrove, Somerset). He entered Mr. Bramston’s House from a preparatory school at St. Neots, reaching Sixth Book and becoming a House Prefect. After Winchester he went on to Trinity College, Cambridge.
He served with the Hampshire Imperial Yeomanry in the Boer War, and went on to be a Lieutenant in 3rd (Militia) Battalion, Seaforth Highlanders. He was gazetted to the regular army in 1901, but resigned his commission on succeeding to his father’s estates. He was a member of the Royal Company of Archers, the King’s Bodyguard for Scotland.
On February 15th 1902 he married Miss Sybil Twynihoe Erle, of Craigentor, Crieff, Perthshire, the daughter of Mr. Twynihoe William Erle (Coll.1840), formerly Master of the Supreme Court. He was therefore brother-in-law of Captain Christopher Erle (died on active service 10/2/1917 - see individual entry). The couple lived at Monzie Castle, Perthshire, and Lathrisk and Largo, Fife, and from 1910 at Ellwood Ranch, Santa Barbara, California. In January 1903 their son David was born, but he died a month later, and it was not until four years later that an heir was born. When he died, Maitland-Makgill-Crichton left two sons and a daughter: Mary Sylvia (July 2nd 1905); Charles Frederic Andrew (born April 3rd 1907, K1920-1925); and Douglas (born April 24th 1909, K1922-1927). A second daughter, Rosemary Julian Maitland-Makgill-Crichton, was born on December 5th 1915, after her father’s death.
On the outbreak of war he volunteered for service and on 20th September was gazetted Captain of 6th Battalion Cameron Highlanders, although the following March he briefly transferred, with the temporary rank of Major, to 11th Battalion Gordon Highlanders. He went to France, with the 10th Battalion, on 7th July 1915. He fell at Loos on 25th September 1915. At first he was posted missing, and one of his company commanders wrote: "I should like to say that Major Crichton, during the period that I was under his command, earned my everlasting admiration and gratitude for the help he was always ready to give me in my difficulties, and the tolerance with which he treated my far too frequent blunders. I shall await the news of him, which, I trust, we shall soon receive, as not merely of my trusted commander, but of my valued friend." However, the news eventually received was not good. A German officer, who had searched Maitland-Makgill-Crichton’s body and removed photographs of his wife and children, sent them back to his widow with a covering letter: "In handing you the enclosed photos and papers which were found on the body of the late Major Crichton, I consider it but my duty to tell you that the Major fell as a hero at the head of his battalion, after having taken Hill 70, east of Loos, by assault. When the hill was retaken by us, his body and those of many of his comrades remained in our hands. From his wound, it appears that death was instantaneous, so that he has not suffered. We laid him at rest in a soldier’s grave." This grave was never located, and Maitland-Makgill-Crichton is commemorated on panels 115 to 119 of the Loos Memorial.
https://www.winchestercollegeatwar.com/RollofHonour.aspx?RecID=316&TableName=ta_wwifactfile
MAITLAND-MAKGILL-CRICHTON James Henry of Toowoombus Brisbane Queensland Australia died 8 March 1948. Probate London 3 September to Edward Swinton Wodehouse Isaac solicitor. Effects £1856 11s. 4d. in England.