See also
Husband:
Charles Julian Maitland-Makgill-Crichton (1880-1915)
Wife:
Sybil Twynihoe Erle (1878-1984)
Children:
Charles Frederick Andrew Maitland-Makgill-Crichton (1907-1933)
Marriage:
15 Feb 1902
St Mary Magdalene, St Pancras, Middlesex
Name:
Charles Julian Maitland-Makgill-Crichton
Sex:
Male
Father:
David Maitland-Makgill-Crichton (1854-1889)
Mother:
Emily Drummond Bailey (1854-1933)
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:
Sybil Twynihoe Erle
Sex:
Female
Father:
-
Mother:
-
Note:
MAITLAND MAKGILL CRICHTON Sybil Twynihoe of 33 Thurloe Court Fulham Road London SW3 died 17 October 1984. Probate London 21 March 1985. £180612.
Birth:
22 Nov 1878
St Pancras, Middlesex
Baptism:
13 Feb 1879 (age 0)
St Mary Magdalene, St Pancras, Middlesex
Death fact:
1984 (age 105-106)
1984 Oct, Kensington & Chelsea, 13/1631 (aged 105)
Death:
17 Oct 1984 (age 105)
Chelsea, London SW3
Birth:
Parents: Twynihoe William Erle & Mary Bogle
Name:
David Maitland-Makgill-Crichton
Sex:
Male
Birth:
15 Jan 1903
Death:
12 Feb 1903 (age 0)
Name:
Mary Sylvia Maitland-Makgill-Crichton
Sex:
Female
Note:
CRICHTON Mary Sylvia Maitland Makgill of 33 Thurloe Court Fulham Road Chelsey London S.W.3 died 1 July 1994. Probate Winchester 15 September. £679050.
Birth:
2 Jul 1905
Death:
1 Jul 1994 (age 88)
Chelsea, London SW3
Name:
Charles Frederick Andrew Maitland-Makgill-Crichton
Sex:
Male
Note:
CRICHTON, Charles Frederick Andrew Maitland MAKGILL of Largo and Monzie, and 10 Cadogan Place, London, died 28 September 1933 at London, testate. Eik to Confirmation Cupar, 8 May 1935, to Douglas Maitland Makgill Crichton, Craigentor, Crieff, his brother, Sybil Twynihoe Erle or Makgill Crichton, his mother, and Mary Sylvia Maitland Makgill Crichton, his sister, Executors. Will dated 18 May 1932 recorded Cupar 27 December 1933. Value of Additional Estate, £329-3-9. Original Confirmation granted 3 January 1934.
Scotland National Probate Index
Birth:
3 Apr 1907
Occupation:
1932 (age 24-25)
Author: Russian Close-Up, Chatto & Windus, 1932
Death:
28 Sep 1933 (age 26)
10 Cadogan Place, London
Name:
Douglas Maitland-Makgill-Crichton
Sex:
Male
Spouse:
Sybil Frederica Coore Paton (1907-1992)
Note:
CRICHTON Douglas Maitland Makgill of Monzie Castle Crieff Perthshire died 5 April 1968. Confirmation sealed London 27 August.
Birth:
24 Apr 1909
Kensington, Middlesex
Birth fact:
1909 (age 0)
GRO Reference: 1909 J Quarter in KENSINGTON Volume 01A Page 160
Death:
5 Apr 1968 (age 58)
Crieff, Perthshire, Scotland
Name:
Rosemary Julian Maitland-Makgill-Crichton
Sex:
Female
Spouse:
Birth:
5 Dec 1915
Chelsea, Middlesex
Birth fact:
1916 (age 0-1)
GRO Reference: 1916 M Quarter in CHELSEA Volume 1A
Residence:
2010 (age 94-95)
37 Clareville Grove, London SW7 5AU (Elect Reg)
Death fact:
2010 (age 94-95)
GRO Reference: DOR Q1/2010 in KENSINGTON AND CHELSEA (2391C) Reg 1C004 Entry Number 502762422
Death:
6 Feb 2010 (age 94)
Kensington & Chelsea
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 Sybil Twynihoe of 33 Thurloe Court Fulham Road London SW3 died 17 October 1984. Probate London 21 March 1985. £180612.
CRICHTON Mary Sylvia Maitland Makgill of 33 Thurloe Court Fulham Road Chelsey London S.W.3 died 1 July 1994. Probate Winchester 15 September. £679050.
CRICHTON, Charles Frederick Andrew Maitland MAKGILL of Largo and Monzie, and 10 Cadogan Place, London, died 28 September 1933 at London, testate. Eik to Confirmation Cupar, 8 May 1935, to Douglas Maitland Makgill Crichton, Craigentor, Crieff, his brother, Sybil Twynihoe Erle or Makgill Crichton, his mother, and Mary Sylvia Maitland Makgill Crichton, his sister, Executors. Will dated 18 May 1932 recorded Cupar 27 December 1933. Value of Additional Estate, £329-3-9. Original Confirmation granted 3 January 1934.
Scotland National Probate Index
CRICHTON Douglas Maitland Makgill of Monzie Castle Crieff Perthshire died 5 April 1968. Confirmation sealed London 27 August.