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Données personnelles Lt-Gen. George Robert Ainslie 

• Il est né en l'an 1774.
• Il est décédé en l'an 1839, il avait 65 ans.
• Un enfant de Philip Ainslie et Elizabeth Gray
• Cette information a été mise à jour pour la dernière fois le 4 décembre 2022.

Famille de Lt-Gen. George Robert Ainslie

Il est marié avec Sophia Charlotte Neville.

Ils se sont mariés en l'an 1802, il avait 28 ans.

Enfant(s):

1. Henry Francis Ainslie  1803-1879

Notes par Lt-Gen. George Robert Ainslie

http://landedfamilies.blogspot.nl/2013/08/63-ainslie-of-pilton-great-torrington.html

Ainslie, Lt-Gen. George Robert (1774-1839).  Eldest son of Col. Sir Philip Ainslie (1728-1802) and his wife Eliza, daughter of John, 11th Lord Grey, born 1774.  Entered the army as ensign in the 19th regiment in 1793, promoted lieutenant, 1793, captain in the 85th regiment, 1794 and major, 1799. He seems to have shown no particular capacity as a soldier or much ardour for a military life, and so was in 1800 promoted Lt.-Col. of the Royal Birmingham Regiment of Fencibles and in c.1802  inspector of volunteers in Lincolnshire. Family influence next secured him appointment as Governor of St. Eustatius 1812-13, from which he was moved to Dominica 1813-14; he was recalled after exhibiting particular cruelty to the local maroon population, but was later appointed Lt-Governor of Cape Breton Island 1816-20.  There he quarrelled with the other British officials and made enemies of most of the leading citizens, whom he denounced in an intemperate letter of resignation as "a set of deceitful, unprincipled aliens, embued with the Yankee qualities".  By contrast with his failure as a soldier and a diplomat, he was notably successful and assiduous as an antiquarian coin collector.  He specialised in Anglo-Norman coins, collected across the British Isles and in Normandy and Brittany, on which he published a monograph in 1830.  He was a fellow of the Societies of Antiquaries of London, Edinburgh and France.  He married, 17 December 1802, Sophia Charlotte (c.1776-1870), daughter of Christopher Neville of Wellingore (Lincs), and had issue:
(1) Lt-Col. Henry Francis Ainslie (1803-79), born 11 December 1803; joined the 83rd Regiment, 1824; served in Ceylon, Canada and India; retired as Lt-Col., 1855; a gifted amateur topographical artist whose watercolours are in museums in Canada and the UK; claimed the family baronetcy unsuccessfully, 1858-63; died unmarried and without issue in London, 29 March 1879; will proved 3 May 1879 (estate under £5,000).
(2) Sophia Mary Ainslie (1805-1906); born 2 February 1805; m. 1840 Rev. Richard Kempthorne and had issue; died 24 December 1906 aged 101; will proved 14 March 1907 (estate £205);
(3) Frederick Robert Ainslie (1809-54); died unmarried of wounds received at the Battle of Inkerman in the Crimea;
(4) Georgiana Grace Ainslie (1811-1907); born 19 August 1811; died unmarried, 30 April 1907, aged 95; will proved 4 June 1907 (estate £1,202)
(5) Caroline Matlida Ainslie (1815-93); born 17 December 1815; m. Henry Fowler Mackay (1803-1901) and had issue one son and one daughter; died 18 December 1893; will proved 14 July 1894 (estate £595)
(6) A daughter; died young.
He inherited the Pilton estate from his father in 1802, but sold part of it in 1817.  He lived at Wellingore (Lincs), the home of his wife's family.
He died 16 April 1839 and his will was proved in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, 15 June 1839.  His widow died at Bath, 31 October 1870, aged 94, and her will was proved 15 November 1870 (estate under £450).

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