William Mure (1830–1880)
| William Mure | |
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| Member of Parliament for Renfrewshire |
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In office 1874 – 1880 |
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| Preceded by | Archibald Campbell |
| Succeeded by | Alexander Crum |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
9 May 1830 Caldwell, Ayrshire |
| Died | 9 November 1880 (aged 50) |
| Political party | Liberal |
| Spouse(s) | Constance Elizabeth Wyndham (m. 1859; his death 1880) |
| Relations |
David Mure (uncle) Thomas Lister (nephew) George Wyndham (father-in-law) |
| Children | 4 |
| Parents |
William Mure Laura Markham |
| Military service | |
| Service/branch | Scots Fusilier Guards |
| Rank | Lieutenant-Colonel |
William Mure, of Caldwell (9 May 1830 – 9 November 1880) was a British soldier and Liberal Party politician.
He was the son of Laura Markham and William Mure (1799–1860), also a former MP for Renfrewshire. Mure was the nephew of David Mure. His mother was the second daughter of William Markham of Becca Hall, Yorkshire, and the granddaughter of William Markham (1719–1807) the Archbishop of York from 1776 to 1807.
His sister, Emma Mure (1833–1911), who married Thomas Lister, 3rd Baron Ribblesdale (1828–1876), was the mother of Thomas Lister, 4th Baron Ribblesdale, who's second marriage was to the American heiress, Ava Lowle Willing (1868–1958), former wife of John Jacob Astor IV.
He reached the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel in the Scots Fusilier Guards.
He was elected at the 1874 general election as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Renfrewshire, and was re-elected at the 1880 general election. He died later that year, aged 50.
In 1859, he married Constance Elizabeth Wyndham (d. 1920), daughter of George Wyndham, 1st Baron Leconfield and Mary Fanny Blunt, and sister of Henry Wyndham, 2nd Baron Leconfield. Her maternal grandfather was the Reverend William Blunt and her paternal grandfather was George O'Brien Wyndham, 3rd Earl of Egremont. Together they had:
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