Ramsay Douglas Broadfoot Esq (1857 - 1910)

Born 1 Jun 1857 in Govan, Lanarkshire, Scotland

Husband of Annie Elizabeth Blagrave (Ainslie) Broadfoot — married 7 Oct 1890 in Maxwelton, Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland

Died 11 Jul 1910 at age 53 in Trull, Somerset, England

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Biography

Ramsay Douglas Broadfoot was born in 1857, at Govan in Lanarkshire, the son of Alexander Broadfoot and Margaret Douglas.^[1][2]

On the 7th October 1890, he married Annie Elizabeth Blagrave Ainslie at Maxwelton, Kirkcudbrightshire.^[3][4]

A barrister-at-law by profession, Mr. Douglas was employed with the Madras Civil Service.^[4] His wife died in Madras on the 14th November 1901.^[5]

On the 20th April 1903, he married, secondly, Julia Maude Sabine Brooke, daughter of William O'Shaughnessy Brooke, in Madras.^[6]

Having removed to England in 1910 on a two-year leave, Mr. and Mrs. Broadfoot settled at Trull, near Taunton, in Somerset. On the 11th July in that year, however, Ramsay Douglas Broadfoot died by suicide.^[7][8]

Newspaper extract from the Gloucestershire Echo, 14th July 1910:

TRAGIC DEATH OF A JUDGE.

Mr. Ramsay Douglas Broadfoot, of the Indian Civil Service, a district and sessions judge of Madras, was found dead in his bedroom at Hovelands Lodge, Trull, near Taunton, on Monday morning, with a bullet wound in his head and a revolver by his side. A coroner’s jury on Wednesday returned a verdict of suicide while of unsound mind.

Mr. Broadfoot, who was in England on two years’ furlough, had seen about thirty years’ service, and had frequently had malarial fever during that time. Lately he had been greatly worried about various subjects, one of these being that he considered he had been passed over in connection with the appointment of two judges to the Madras High Court, while another was that his son had been invalided out of Dartmouth Royal Naval College through being shortsighted.^[8]

Abstract of the last will and testament of Mr. Ramsay Douglas Broadfoot:

Last will and testament of Ramsay Douglas Broadfoot of the Middle Temple, Barrister at Law, and of the Madras Civil Service, written 16th October 1895, and proved in H.M. High Court of Justice in England; appointing his brother, Colonel Archibald Broadfoot, his cousin Kenneth M. Douglas of 19 Chester street, Edinburgh, M.D., and his friend and Solicitor, Robert Leonard of Alderman’s House, Bishopsgate, London, executors and trustees; appointing the Rev. Alfred William Buckle Higgins of Woodstock, Welwyn, Hertfordshire, and hs said executors, the Guardian(s) of his infant children. Beneficiaries of the will included: his brothers, William Broadfoot, Major (retired) of the Royal Engineers, and the said Archibald Broadfoot; his sisters, Margaret Georgina Wood and Anna Sutherland McKinnon; his friend and solicitor, Robert Leonard; his cousin, Kenneth Douglas; his eldest son, William Alexander Broadfoot; his daughter, Margaret Campbell Broadfoot; his younger son, Charles Douglas Broadfoot; his wife, Julia Maude Sabine Broadfoot.^[9]

Sources

1. ↑ Scotland, Select Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950. Ramsay Douglas Broadfoot, born 1st June 1857, son of Alexander Broadfoot and Margaret Douglas. Microfilm copy held by the Family History Library, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA (FHL film no. 6035516); index online at ancestry.ca (accessed by Alison Kilpatrick by subscription, 2018-07-12).
2. ↑ National Records of Scotland. Statutory Registers. Birth of Ramsay Douglas Broadfoot in 1857 in Partick registration district, ref. 646/2 233. Index online at ScotlandsPeople, hosted by National Records of Scotland, www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk (register entry purchased by Alison Kilpatrick, 2018-07-20).
3. ↑ National Records of Scotland. Statutory Registers. Marriage of Ramsay Douglas Broadfoot and Annie Elizabeth Ainslie in Glencairn registration district in 1890, ref. 826/8. Index online at ScotlandsPeople, hosted by National Records of Scotland, www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk (register entry purchased by Alison Kilpatrick, 2018-07-20).
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1} The Solicitors’ Journal. Vol. XXXIV (1889-1890). Marriage notice: “BROADFOOT—AINSLIE.—Oct. 7, at Maxwelton Chapel, Ramsay Douglas Broadfoot, of the Madras Civil Service, and of the Middle Temple, barrister-at-law, to Annie Elizabeth Blagrave, eldest daughter of C.A. Ainslie, of The Gart, Perthshire.” (25 pub. London, October 1890 (pg. 829).
5. ↑ British India Office. Ecclesiastical Returns. “Burials at Madras St George’s Cathedral.” Annie Elizabeth Blagrave Broadfoot, died 14th November 1901, aged 30 years, cause of death: pertionitis; wife of Ramsay Douglas Broadfoot, Indian Civil Service; buried 14th November 1901 by A. Acheson Williams, M.A., Archdeacon of Madras. Digital image online at findmypast.co.uk (accessed by Alison Kilpatrick by subscription, 2018-07-11).
6. ↑ British India Office. Ecclesiastical Returns. “Marriages solemnized at St George’s Cathedral, Madras.” Ramsay Douglas Broadfoot, age 45, widower, Indian Civil Service, resident of Cuddalore, son of Alexander Broadfoot; and Julia Maude Sabine Brooke, age 38, spinster, daughter of William O’Shaughnessy Brooke; married 20th April 1903, after Banns, by A. Acheson Williams, M.A., Archdeacon of Madras; witnesses: Agnes Baines, G.K. Walker, H.A. Sim, A.S. [or A.J.] McKinnon. Digital image online at findmypast.co.uk (accessed by Alison Kilpatrick by subscription, 2018-07-12).
7. ↑ Index of civil registrations of deaths, England. Ramsay D Broadfoot, 3rd quarter ending 30th September 1910, Taunton RD (Somerset), vol. 5c, pg. 161. Original record: General Register Office, Southport. Digital image online at FreeBMD, freebmd.org.uk (accessed by Alison Kilpatrick 2018-07-12).
8. ↑ ^{8.0 8.1} Gloucestershire Echo, 14 July 1910 (pg. 1). Death notice of Ramsay Douglas Broadfoot, at Trull near Taunton, Somerset. Digital image online at The British Newspaper Archive, britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk (accessed by subscription, and transcribed by Alison Kilpatrick 2018-07-12).
9. ↑ British India Office. Wills and Administrations. (i) Inventory:—In the Matter of the Goods of Ramsay Douglas Broadfoot dec’d;” filed 25th July 1911; and (ii) Last will and testament of Ramsay Douglas Broadfoot of the Middle Temple, Barrister at Law, and of the Madras Civil Service, written 16th October 1895, and proved in H.M. High Court of Justice in England. Digital images online at findmypast.co.uk (accessed by subscription, and abstract prepared by Alison Kilpatrick, 2018-07-12).