George Glas Sandeman
(1839-1883)

Volume 3, page 194, sitting number 3468 (left). Not in the Silvy daybooks (right).

[The portrait on the left was taken on 4 May 1861. The portrait on the right was probably taken during the period covered by the missing volume of the daybooks, July 1863 to June 1864.]

Born on 16 August 1839, George Glas Sandeman was the third son of merchant George Glas Sandeman. He entered the Army and rose to the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel in the service of the 3rd Battalion Royal Highlanders (Black Watch). In 1881 he married Amy Sandeman, daughter of T. Fraser Sandeman and his wife Amelia. The couple had one child, George Amelius Crawshay Sandeman, born on 18 April 1883 at 34 Grosvenor Gardens, London. Mrs Sandeman died six days later. She was 37 years old.

Lieutenant-Colonel George Glas Sandeman of the Royal Highlanders died on 13 March 1905 at his Scottish residence, Fonab Moulin in Perthshire. He left an estate valued at £246,252.

'The death took place yesterday forenoon at Fonab Castle, Pitlochry, of Lieut.-Col. George Glas Sandeman of Fonab, Grosvenor Gardens, London, and Clarence Villa, Hayling Island. Colonel Sandeman, who had reached the age of 66, had been ill for some months, and his demise was therefore not quite unexpected. The deceased Colonel, who was a native of London, was a descendant of the old and well-known Perthshire family of Sandeman, who in the course of years had gone south and abroad, the deceased gentleman with one other having been the only remaining owners of Highland property. Colonel Sandeman since acquiring the estate of Fonab, both from his kindly disposition to his tenants and the very large number of costly improvements he made to the property, had won the respect and goodwill of all upon his estate, as well as the general inhabitants of the Pitlochry district. [...] He was a keen and generous supporter of all philanthropic and other associations having as their aim the amelioration or happiness of the people' (Dundee Courier, 14 March 1905). 

[From an album compiled by Charles Balfour, a British wine merchant importing sherry and port from Portugal. Born in Edinburgh on 22 August 1822, his father was James Balfour. In May 1852 he married Mary Ermelinda, daughter of Robert Woodhouse of Oporto in Portugal. The couple were married at the consulate then afterwards at the British chapel in Oporto. Charles Balfour died on 12 January 1876.