About Hugh Morton Shand
Lived 1815 – 1890 (aged 75). Hugh Morton Shand was a businessperson.
Hugh Morton Shand (13 January 1815 – 24 June 1890) was a British army officer and businessman, the son of Alexander Garden Shand and Isabella Shand nee Morton. He is the patrilineal great-great-grandfather of Queen Camilla.
He served with the British army, went to India and founded a trading company.
He bought Edwardes Place, a terrace of five houses in Kensington, London.
In 1857, he married Edrica Faulkner (1822–1890), daughter of an "itinerant portrait painter", and they had three sons: Alexander Faulkner Shand, (1858–1936) writer and barrister, and patrilineal great-grandfather of Queen Camilla.
He died on 24 June 1890 at 13 Leinster Gardens, London.
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