Person:Oswald Lumsden (1)

Oswald Farquhar LUMSDEN was born 26jun1874 at Peterculter, Aberdeenshire and died 8apr1948 at Edinburgh, Midlothian (cricket archive). Oswald was born 1874 at Binghill House, Peterculter (D. Sangster).Oswald married 1st Claudine Grimani-Smith in 1902, who died in childbirth with baby Robert Farquhar (A. Lumsden). Oswald married his cousin once removed Lola LUMSDEN (died 12jan1976) (family letters, newspaper). Scotlandspeople: At St. Johns East Parish Church, Perth, 2 cousins married on 30aug1911. O. Farquhar Lumsden, aged 37, Deputy Commissioner, Indian Civil Service, widowed, of Amritsar, India, son of Robert Lumsden, banker, deceased, and Amelia Grant Lumsden nee Farquhar, married Laura T. Lumsden, aged 24, of Huntingtowerfield, Tibbermore, Perth, daughter of James David Lumsden, bleacher, and Susan Ann Ranken Lumsden, nee Fortune. Witnesses were James H. (illegible), S. A. R. Lumsden and A. G. Lumsden.

Oswald Farquhar Lumsden, aged 19, studied arts 1893-4 at Edinburgh University; he was b. at Binghill, Aberdeenshire, went to school at Bon Accord, Aberdeen (5and half yrs) and Merchiston Castle, Edinburgh (5and half yrs) (archives.lib.ed.ac.uk). Oswald passed criminal law exam at Lincolns Inn, London in 1908, and final exam may1924 (Times). Oswald played cricket for the Europeans (India) in the 1922/23 season (archive). On death 1923 of Sir Robert Russell Simpson, 23 Douglas Cresc., Edinburgh, WS, a beneficiary was Oswald Farquhar Lumsden; in 1932 Oswald was again a beneficiary (GWR shares). Sir Robert Russell Simpson, lawyer and philanthropist, d. 1923, Edinburgh; he was son of Alexander Simpson, Bathgate banker, nephew of James Young Simpson, physician, and son in law of Samuel Raleigh, manager of Scottish Widows Fund (Times).

In 1935 Oswald lived at 21 Napier Rd., Edinburgh (family letters). In 1954 Oswald F. Lumsden, 21 Napier Rd., Edinburgh was in phone book (ancestry.com); his wife was still alive. Oswald and Laura's house at 21 Napier Road in Edinburgh, was called "Elsick" after the Fetteresso property, owned by the family of the wife of Robert Farquhar (b. 1723), an ancestors (D. Sangster).

1.   (R) (57), in International Genealogical Index. ( The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saint, 1999-2008)
   Batch #: C112311, Sheet #: 00, Source Call #: 6035516 REGISTER, Printout Call #: NONE, Date.
2.   (R) (57), in International Genealogical Index. ( The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saint, 1999-2008)
   Batch #: D198423, Sheet #: 00.
3.   General Register Office for Scotland. 1881 Scotland Census. (Edinburgh).
4.   General Register Office for Scotland. 1891 Scotland Census. (Edinburgh).
5.   Family letters.