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JOHNSTONES OF ALVA 299
Charles Somerset, late Lieutenant 2nd Dragoons, born June 1882, married
Victoria Stewart; 2, Reginald Fitzroy Lewis, born 1884, Second Lieutenant
Cameron Highlanders; 3, Violet.
Colonel Montague Johnstone was educated at Cheltenham, where he won
in one term the class Mathematical, Divinity and German prizes. In athletics
he won the boxing belt and other trophies. He was not only the last Cornet
to be gazetted to the Royal Scots Greys, but the last officer to buy his
Cornetcy and Lieutenancy. In 1880 he was made extra Aide-de-camp to the
Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, and four years later was appointed to the Headquarter
Staff in Sir Charles Warren's expedition to Bechuanaland, where he
helped to raise the 2nd Mounted Rifles, for which he obtained 400 volunteers.
He saw much hard service in the South African War, taking part in all the
operations in which Lord Methuen's Brigade was engaged (1 899-1901). He
commanded the Lambeth Palace Camp at the King's Coronation.
(3) Francis Fawkes, Lieutenant-Colonel late Bedfordshire Regiment, born
Aug. 1849. Married, first, 1878, Henrietta, second daughter of James Sullivan,
and had— 1, Montague, born 1880, died unmarried 1907 ; 2, Mary Louisa,
married, 1897, P. Kitchin ; 3, Frances Geraldine. He married, secondly, 1887,
Harriet, widow of Captain Greg and daughter of Richard Sargent, and has
4, Charles, born 1889.
(4) Robert Fitzroy Maclean, late Major 4th Hyderabad Lancers, born
Sept. 30, 1859. Married, 1898, Mary, widow of F. A. Beauclerk and daughter
of Admiral J. B. Dickson.
(5) Frances Mary (10 Newbold Terrace, Leamington).
(6) Fanny Louisa, died 1895, married her cousin, John Pitt Muir
Mackenzie.
(7) Edith Olive, married, 1883, Captain Edmund George Reilly, B.S.C.,
who died 1887. A son, Noel.
(8) Mysie Caroline, married, 1886, Frederick Gomer, and has children.
(9) Maud, married, 1904, Stanley Davies.
IV. George Dempster (Rev.), Captain (retired) H. E.I. C.S., born March 13,
1805, Rector of Creed, Cornwall. Married, Sept. 1, 1842, Mary Anne, daughter
of the late John Hawkins of Bignor, in Sussex, and niece of Sir Christopher
Hawkins and Colonel Sibthorp. Died 1867, having had
(1) George Herbert, born June 1, 1843 ; died young.
(2) John Heywood of Bignor Park, Sussex, J. P., M.P. for Horsham
Division, 1893-1904. Born May 18, 1850. Married, 1878, Josephine, daughter
of the late J. Wells of Bickley, Co. Kent, and died Oct. 10, 1904, leaving— 1,
George Horace, now of Bignor Park and Trewithen, Co. Cornwall, born Jan. 8,
1882; 2, Frances Grace, married, April 19, 1904, George Bernard Hill; 3,
Margaret Ruth.
(3) Mary Catherine, the only daughter of the Rev. George D. Johnstone,
married, April 23, 1874, John Gwennap Dennis Moore of Garlenick, Co. Cornwall,
and has— 1, Herbert Tregosse Gwennap, Captain R.E., served in South
Africa, 1899-1902; 2, Waldo Alington Gwennap, Captain Welsh Regiment;