Il est marié avec Ruth Littlejohn.
Ils se sont mariés le 30 juin 1898 à Queen's Cross Church, Aberdeen, Scotland, United Kingdom, il avait 33 ans.
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Colonel William Smith Gill CB VD DL (16 February 1865 – 25 December 1957) was a Scottish Volunteer Force officer and paint manufacturer.
Early life
Born at Old Machar, Peterculter, Aberdeenshire, Gill was the son of Alexander Ogston Gill (1832–1908) and his wife, Barbara Smith Marr (1843–1898).[1]
Career
In the 1880s, Gill became an officer of the Aberdeen Volunteers,[2] and between 1908 and 1910 he was Colonel Commanding the Highland Division Royal Engineers (Territorial Force).[3] By 1896, Gill was a partner with his father in Farquhar & Gill, paint manufacturers.[4]
In 1925, Gill was appointed as a Deputy lieutenant of Aberdeen.[5]
Gill died in 1957 at Dalhebity in Bieldside, Aberdeenshire, aged 92.[1] He was buried in Peterculter Cemetery, Aberdeen.[6]
Marriage and issue
On 30 June 1898, at Queen's Cross Church, Aberdeen, Gill married Ruth Littlejohn, a daughter of David Littlejohn, DL (1841-1924) and his wife, Jane Crombie (1843-1917). They had five children:[1][7]
Alexander Ogston Gill (1900–1982)
Jean Forbes Gill (1901–1987)
Elizabeth Penelope Gill (1904–1995)
Ruth Sylvia Gill (1908–1993),[8] mother of Frances Shand Kydd and grandmother of Diana, Princess of Wales, Charles Spencer, 9th Earl Spencer, Lady Sarah McCorquodale, and Jane, Lady Fellowes[1]
William David Littlejohn Gill (1915–1999)
Notes
D. Williamson, "The Ancestry of Lady Diana Spencer" in ' Genealogist’s Magazine, vol. 20 (1981), pp. 192–199 and 281–282
Donald Sinclair, The History of the Aberdeen Volunteers: Embracing Also Some Account of the Early Volunteers of the Counties of Aberdeen, Banff, and Kincardine (Aberdeen Daily Journal Office, 1907), pp. 302, 303
Supplemental History of the Society of Advocates in Aberdeen (1939), p. 119: "Ruth married in 1898 William Smith Gill, C.B., D.L., of Dalhebity, Peterculter, Colonel Commanding Highland Division R.E. (T.F.), 1908-10. Died, 11th May, 1924."
"Alexander Ogston Gill and Another v. William Cutler" in Cases Decided in the Court of Session, Court of Justiciary, and House of Lords (T. & T. Clark, 1898), p. 371
The London Gazette, 15 September 1925, p. 6030
William Smith Gill, findagrave.com, accessed 5 December 2020
Burkes Peerage vol. 1 (2003), p. 1414
Bruce Harrison, The Family Forest Descendants of Sir Robert Parke, p. 389
Categories: 1865 births1957 deathsPeople from AberdeenCompanions of the Order of the BathRoyal Engineers officersDeputy Lieutenants of Aberdeen
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