Sir
Ralph
Abercromby
"4th Baronet Anstruther of Balcaskie"
Anstruther
Born in Carnbee, Fife, Scotland, United Kingdom
Ancestors 
Brother of
James Hamilton Lloyd-Anstruther
Husband of
Mary Jane (Torrens) Anstruther
— married
2 Sep 1831 [location unknown]
Descendants 
Died
at age 59
in Balcaskie, Fife, Scotland, United Kingdom
Profile last modified
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| Preceded by Robert Anstruther 3rd Bt |
Baronet Anstruther of Balcaskie 1818-1863 |
Succeeded by Robert Anstruther 5th Bt |
Biography
This profile is part of the Watten, Caithness One Place Study.
Ralph was born on 1 March 1804 at Grosvenor Street, London, England. He was the son of Brig.-Gen. Robert Anstruther and Lucy Charlotte Hamilton. He was baptised on 13 May 1804 at Carnbee, Fife, Scotland.
On the passing of his grandfather on 2 August 1818 he succeeded to the title of 4th Baronet Anstruther, of Wrae, co. Linlithgow established 1694 in the Scottish Baronetage of Nova Scotia.
He graduated from Trinity College, Cambridge University, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, in 1822 with a Master of Arts (M.A.) He gained the rank of Captain in the service of the Grenadier Guards.
He married Mary Jane Torrens, daughter of Maj.-Gen. Sir Henry Torrens and Sarah Patton, on 2 September 1831. They had children:
- Lucy Charlotte Anstruther d. 14 Nov 1903
- Mary Anstruther
- Lt.-Col. Sir Robert Anstruther of Balcaskie, 5th Bt 1834-1886
- Lieutenant Henry Anstruther c1836-1854 of the Royal Welsh Fusiliers, killied in action at the Battle of Alma, Crimea
He held the office of Lord Rector of the University of St. Andrew's in 1859.
Sir Ralph was one of the chief landholders in Watten, in Caithness, in the mid-1840s.[1]
He passed away on 18 October 1863 at age 59 at Balcaskie, Fife, Scotland.
Sources
- ↑ The Statistical Accounts of Scotland 1791-1845, Watten, County of Caithness, NSA, Vol. XV, 1845, page 52, accessed 21 January 2022.
See also:
- George Edward Cokayne, editor, The Complete Baronetage, 5 volumes (no date (c. 1900); reprint, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 1983), volume IV, page 367.
- http://www.thepeerage.com/p1333.htm#i13322
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anstruther_baronets#Anstruther_baronets,_of_Wrae,_Balcaskie,_Fife_and_Braemore_(1694)
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