Colonel the Honourable James Macdonald
(1810-1882)

Volume 1, page 232, sitting number 1113 or 1114.

[No photograph appears with either sitting in the Silvy daybooks, though Colonel MacDonald's name appears above each space. Sitting number 1115, however, is illustrated, and the portrait shows Colonel MacDonald with his wife, although she is unidentified in the daybooks The same pedestal and balustrade appear as the ones seen here, with the two sitters posed behind the balustrade.]

From 15 July 1856 until his death, Colonel the Honourable James William Bosville Macdonald served as private secretary to the Duke of Cambridge, commander-in-chief of the British Army.

He appears on the 1861 census, a visitor at Egerton Lodge, Melton Mowbray, the home of the Earl of Wilton. He appears on the 1871 census, living with his family at the Ranger’s Lodge in London's Hyde Park. He gave his profession as 'ADC to HRH Duke of Cambridge.'

Colonel the Honourable James Macdonald died at St Leonards-on-Sea on 4 January 1882, although the abstract of his will makes it clear that his residence at the time of his death was still the Ranger's Lodge in Hyde Park. He left an estate valued at £5926.