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The Family of Clouston
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J Storer Clouston, (1870-1944) son of the eminent psychologist, Sir Thomas Clouston was a successful novelist and one of the foremost Orkney historians of his day. He was a founder member of the Orkney Antiquarian Society. In 1948 his researches on his own family were published privately. If you have Cloustons anywhere in your family tree, this 2002 reprint is a very worthwhile addition to your library.
Storer believed the Cloustons are descended from Hakon Klo, son of Havard Gunnason, 'great chief of the 1090s'. The chapters in which he traces the family down to medieval times are necessarily speculative but make interesting reading, including a chapter on Orkneymen in the Scots Guards, bodyguards of the King of France.
The book traces the family right up to the 1940s but doesn't include members of the family still living. The last member of the family to feature in the book had died only a year or two earlier. J Campbell Clouston was pier-master on the East Mole through six days of the Dunkirk evacuation but was drowned when his launch was sunk while returning from a planning meeting in Dover just before the end of the operation.
The book contains several family trees, including families related to the Cloustons - Mowats, Traills, Stewarts and Omands.
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The branch descended from his brother Thomas lived for a time in Dublin, and, I believe, had theatrical interests there, and then migrated to Australia where they flourish today. Of this family, Thomas, the third, grandson of the first, was the most outstanding member. He was the third known Clouston to enter the Church, earned the distinction of D.D., and was for a period the Right Rev Moderator of the Presbyterian Church of Australia. His son by his second marriage, Lieut. Boyd Clouston, of whom I retain a very happy memory, came over with an Australian contingent in the first Great War and fell in the mightmare carnage of Passchendale.
The next son, Robert, was for a time on the Gold Coast, and he too became a rich Clouston - not so really rich as Edward, but he kept his fortune, became known in artistic circles as a discerning collector of pictures, and purchased, besides the pictures, two estates, Ballymagarvy in Ireland, where he lived, and Northdyke in Orkney. He married Harriet Drever, also of an Orkney family, but they left no issue. The youngest son of William, the Rev Charles Clouston, was the best known, both in and out of Orkney. Born in 1800, educated at Edinburgh University and ordained in 1826, he succeeded his father as minister of Sandwick in 1832 and only died in 1884, aged eighty-four, in the fifty-sixth year of his ministry.
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