| Administrative History | Edward Robertson Lumsden (1869-1950) was born in Midmar, the younger son of Rev. Edward Lumsden and Janet Richardson Downie Lumsden (daughter of Charles Downie of Ashfield). He graduated from the University of Aberdeen in 1889, then joined his older brother Charles Downie Lumsden (1863-1924 interred Fulham Cemetery) in the partnership of Lumsden and Lumsden, before emigrating to Canada in 1910. He returned to Scotland in 1915 and practiced on his own account before forming a partnership with Emslie c. 1926 at 14 Crown Street. This partnership was dissolved in 1929, with Lumsden retaining the firms offices at 29 Union Street and Emslie practicing at Ellon. He was factor for the Broomhill estate.
He is included in the University of Aberdeen Roll of Service in the Great War 1914-1919 - it states the following on p. 226:
LUMSDEN, EDWARD ROBERTSON, M.A.,s. of Edward L.;b. Midmar, 18 Apr. 1869. M.A., 1889. Advocate in Aberdeen, 1894.War work-Ministry of Food, N. of Scotland Div., 1918-19
Client papers include those of his father Rev. Edward Lumsden (1829-1914), who married Janet Richardson Downie (1839-1903), the only daughter of Charles Downie of Ashfield. He was ordained as Minister of Midmar in 1859 and retired in 1904. His family erected a plaque in his memory that can be seen to the left of the pulpit in Midmar Church. Rev. Edward Lumsden owned propertise across Aberdeen: Ferryhill, Ashvale, Menzies Road, Upperkirkgate, Rose Street. Along with Edward and Charles, he also had three daughters named Mary Leith Lumsden Ferries (1866-1934), Elizabeth Lumsden Murray (1869-1945) and Janet Lumsden (1870-1923). In 1912, he remarried (after the death of his first wife in 1903), Jane Fettes Lumsden (1882-1950).
Charles Downie Lumsden , brother of Edward and son of Rev. Edward Lumsden, married Isabella McCombie Wood (d 1926) on 24 Nov 1896. She was the daughter of Major Henry Wood & Helen Richardson Blaikie. A birth is noted in 1897 but no additional information given. They also had another child, a son, Charles Leith Lumsden (1900-1900), who died a month after birth. Charles Downie Lumsden is included in the University of Aberdeen Roll of Service in the Great War 1914-1919 - it states the following on p. 225:
'LUMSDEN, CHARLES DOWNIE, M.A.,s. of Edward L.;b. Aberdeen, 9 June 1863. M.A., 1883. Advocate in Aberdeen, 1893.Apptd. Acting Paymaster, 4 Mar. 1915. Home service, Eastern Command Pay Office,London, 1915-19. Mentd., 3 Sept. 1918. Final rank, Acting Paymaster.'
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