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Urquhart Castle, Drumnadrochit, Inverness IV63 6XJ, United Kingdom
University of Oxford, Oxford, Oxfordshire OX1 3PA
St. Margaret and St. Andrew Churchyard, 116 Littleham Rd, Littleham, Exmouth EX8 2RF, United Kingdom
Edward William Urquhart (January 18, 1839 – November 4, 1916) was a British clergyman and the 23rd Chief of Clan Urquhart.
He was born on January 18, 1839, in Edinburgh, Scotland, the son of Adam Urquhart (of the Craigston line) and Mary Lydia (née Maltby).
During his time at Oxford University, Urquhart was an acquaintance of the writer and critic John Addington Symonds. In his memoirs, Symonds characterized Urquhart and his peer, Randell Vickers, as having "high church proclivities" and a noted interest in choristers. Symonds reflected on this period of his life as one where he often frequented antechapels and engaged in what he described as "feverish sentimentalism" while in their company.
This social circle included Charles Shorting, another associate of Symonds at Oxford, whose documented behavior toward choristers eventually led to his involvement in significant trouble, an event that Symonds later associated with the introduction of a specific "atmosphere of boy-love" into his own social sphere around 1862.
Urquhart entered the Church as a clergyman. He is frequently cited as "Reverend Edward William Urquhart."
He served as the 23rd Chief of Clan Urquhart from 1898 until his death in 1916.
He married Caroline Mary Harris in 1872.
He passed away on November 4, 1916, at the age of 77, and is interred in the churchyard of St. Margaret and St. Andrew in Littleham, East Devon, England.
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