Old photograph of Largie Castle, a former mansion house at Tayinloan, Kintyre, Scotland. It was was designed by architect Charles Wilson for The Hon. Augustus Moreton Macdonald and and was built in 1857. Born Augustus Moreton, Macdonald was a younger son of Thomas Reynolds Moreton, 1st Earl of Ducie, and Lady Frances, daughter of Henry Herbert, 1st Earl of Carnarvon. Henry Reynolds Moreton, 2nd Earl of Ducie, was his elder brother. He was elected Member of Parliament for Gloucestershire West in 1832, a seat he held until 1835, and then represented Gloucestershire East between 1835 and 1841. He was also a campaigner for homeopathy. In 1836 he published the work Civilisation, or, a Brief Analysis of the Natural Laws that Regulate the Numbers and Condition of Mankind. He married Mary Jane, daughter of Sir Charles Macdonald-Lockhart, 2nd Baronet, in 1837, and later assumed the surname of Macdonald in lieu of his patronymic. They had several children. She died in December 1851. Macdonald survived her by eleven years and died in February 1862, aged 57.
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