William Mure, of Caldwell (9 May 1830 – 9 November 1880)[1] was a British soldier and Liberal Party[2] politician.
His mother was the second daughter of William Markham of Becca Hall, Yorkshire, and the granddaughter of William Markham (1719–1807) the Archbishop of York from 1776 to 1807.
[5] Mure's sister, Emma (1833–1911), who married Thomas Lister, 3rd Baron Ribblesdale (1828–1876), was the mother of Thomas Lister, 4th Baron Ribblesdale,[6] whose second marriage was to the American heiress, Ava Lowle Willing (1868–1958), former wife of John Jacob Astor IV.
[7][8] Mure reached the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel in the Scots Fusilier Guards.
In 1859, Mure married Constance Elizabeth Wyndham (d. 1920), daughter of George Wyndham, 1st Baron Leconfield and Mary Fanny Blunt, and sister of Henry Wyndham, 2nd Baron Leconfield.