Lt. Col. Sir William Gordon Gordon Cumming, 4th Bart

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• Christening: 8 Sep 1848, Forres, Moray, Scotland

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Lieutenant-Colonel Sir William Alexander Gordon Gordon-Cumming, 4th Baronet (20 July 1848 – 20 May 1930) was a Scottish landowner, soldier, adventurer and socialite. A notorious womaniser, he is best known for being the central figure in the royal baccarat scandal of 1891. After inheriting a baronetcy he joined the Army and saw service in South Africa, Egypt and the Sudan; he served with distinction and rose to the rank of lieutenant-colonel. Something of an adventurer, he also spent time hunting in the US and India. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_William_Gordon-Cumming,_4th_Baronet

William married Florence Josephine Garner on 10 Jun 1891 in Kensington and Chelsea, London. Florence (daughter of William Thorn Garner and Mary Marcellite Thorn) was born on 7 Dec 1869 in New York, USA; died on 21 Sep 1922 in Elgin, Moray, Scotland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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1st daughter of Lt. Dol. Sir William Gordon Gordon-Cumming, 4th Bart., by Florence Josephine, 2nd daughter of William Garner, Commodore of the New York Yacht Club. Baptised at Forres, Co. Elgin.

The marriage was dissolved at her husband's suit 1923. She married secondly 3 April 1924 at Rangoon, Lennox Napier.

Buried in Dominica.

Elma married Captain Maurice Antony Crutchley Gibbs on 10 Jan 1912 in Altyre Church, Nr. Forres, Moray, Scotland, and was divorced in 1923. Maurice (son of The Hon. Henry Lloyd Gibbs and The Hon. Alice Mary Crutchley) was born on 9 Jun 1888 in 10 Lennox Gardens, Chelsea, London; died on 8 Aug 1974 in La Haut, Saint George, Dominica; was buried in Roseau, Saint George, Dominica. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Elma married Lennox Pelham Napier on 3 Apr 1924 in Rangoon, Bengal, India. Lennox was born on 8 May 1891 in Singapore; died on 4 Mar 1940 in Calibishie, Saint Andrew, Dominica. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Baptism: 7 Dec 1912, Chelsea, London

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Born 8 November 1912. Baptised 7 December 1912 at the chapel of the Royal Hospital Chelsea (first baby).

Went to Australia with her parents living first in Melbourne and then in Perth where she attended The Presbyterian Ladies College. She returned to England when she was 12 and finished her education at Heathfield School and also in Paris. In 1932 her mother and stepfather moved to Dominica in the West Indies and she went with them, living there for the rest of her life. She marired Percy Kirwan Agar a farmer and well known painter and ornithologist. She ran the census office in the War. After husband’s death in 1954 she continued to run the estate, started the local radio station, worked for many local charities including the Red Cross and was a founder member and Managing director of the Fort Young Hotel for many years.

The Fort Young Hotel, Dominica, which was destroyed by Hurricane 'David' when it hit Dominica in August 1979, but since rebuilt. She also helped to run the Coulibri Estate dairy farm, and the farm at La Haut, the family estate, that was also totally wrecked in the hurricane; all the buildings on the dairy farm fell down, but only one cow was lost.

Last address: Morne Rouge, Dominica, West Indies, which was one of the few houses not destroyed by the hurricane.

Died 4 January 2011.

Birth:
27 Ormonde Gate

Daphne married Percy Kirwan Agar on 5 Jan 1934 in Roseau, Saint George, Dominica. Percy was born on 28 Sep 1897 in Roseau, Saint George, Dominica; died on 12 Jul 1954 in La Haut, Saint George, Dominica. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Antony married Madeleine Carmel Morrison [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Mark Varvill. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]