History of the Johnstones, 1191-1909, with ... - Electric Scotland

JOHNSTONES OF LUDLOW 303
185 1. Married, 1880, Ethel, daughter of Henry Strickland Constable of
Wassand, Co. York. By her, who died 1891, he has— 1, Sibell ; 2, Freda,
married eldest son of third Earl of Listovvel, and has issue.
(2) Edward Henry, born 1854. Married, 1896, Hon. Evelyn, daughter of
fifth Viscount Clifden. Died 1903, leaving— 1, Leopold, born 1897; 2, George
Harcourt ; 3, Patrick Robin Gilbert.
(3) Cecil, C.E., born 1856.
(4) Alan (Sir), K.C.V.O., married, 1892, Antoinette, daughter of J. W.
Pinchot, of New York. Has Harcourt, born 1895.
(5) Louis, born 1862. Married, 1891, Gwendoline Mary Talbot, and has
1, Granville Henry, born 1891 ; 2, Robin Talbot; 3, Dorothy Ethel; 4, Joan
Gwendoline.
(6) Gilbert, born 1865. Married, 1897, Rachael, daughter of Colonel the
Hon. Archibald Douglas Pennant. Has— 1, Mark, born 1900; 2, Felix.
(7) Hilda, died 1853.
(8) Edith.
(9) Mary.
Charles, 1 of Ludlow, the second son of Lady Annandale by her second
husband, Colonel John Johnstone of Netherwood, was born in London, July 15,
1736, and is registered as baptised in the parish of St. George's, Hanover
Square, on the 20th. Died 1805. He married Mary, daughter of John and
Mary Beddoe of Haverfordwest, Pembroke, in 1778. The bride was seventeen,
the bridegroom forty-two, and they had eight sons and six daughters. The
eldest :—
(1) William, born Oct. 1779 at Haverfordwest, was educated at Charterhouse
and Cambridge ; Rector of Culmington, Salop. Married, 1804, Catherine
Brome, and died s.p. 1856.
(2) Charles Philipps, born Nov. 6, 1780, his second name, that of his
godfather, Sir Richard Philipps, Lord Milford. He was a Captain in the
3rd King's Own Dragoon Guards, and married, 1807, Frances, youngest
daughter of James Harrison of Cheadle Bulkley, Co. Chester, and by her,
who died at Newbold Manor, Co. Stafford, 1844, he had eleven children. He
died in Worcester, March 8, 1863, and was buried in Hindlip Churchyard.
His eldest son— 1, Charles James, born 1809, Fellow of Caius College, Cambridge,
Physician to the Foundling Hospital, London, died unmarried March
26, 1838. He is buried in the Chapel of the Foundling, with a marble tablet
to his memory by Lough; 2, William Henry, born 1812, drowned when
bathing in the Mersey, 1828 ; 3, Parker, R.N., born 1813, died unmarried 1842 ;
4, a son, died an infant; 5, Vanden Bempde, born May 10, 1819, Cantab,
in Holy Orders, died April 15, 1859, buried at Itchen Stoke, Hants. He
married, April 12, 1855, Louisa, daughter of Jonathan Scarth, Esq., of Shrevvs-
1 He wrote down his recollections of the Macdonald followers of Prince Charles Edward
quartering themselves at Comlongan Castle, and their theory as to the connection of Johnstones
and Macdonalds from two daughters of a chief named Haliday— so called because he
chose Saints days for raids into England—marrying the progenitors of the two clans.