!SOURCE: Sir Robert Douglas of Glenbervie, Bart., THE PEERAGE OF
SCOTLAND, Vol. 2, Second Edition, John Philip Wood, Esq., Editor,
Edinburgh, 1813, p. 16.
3. Hon. Godfrey Macdonald, born 14th October 1775, captain of a
company in the first regiment of foot-guards, with the rank of
lieutenant-colonel in the army. He served under Sir Eyre Coote, in the
23d or Welsh fuzileers, in the expedition to Ostend; was wounded in
Holland, in the campaign 1799, under the Duke of York; served in the
West Indies, with the 35th regiment of foot; and commanded the 24th
regiment at the reduction of the Cape of Good Hope. He married Miss
Louisa Maria Edsir, and by her had eight children.