Major General Sir Richard Bannatyne-Allason

Richard Allason Bannatine was born on 22nd September 1855 at Glaisnock House in Cumnock to Dr Richard Bannatine an army surgeon and Charlotte Owen an Australian, who were married n Sydney on 13 Nov 1851. She was the daughter of  Assistant Commissary General Stephen Owen. Their daughter Charlotte was born in Sydney on Dec 1852. Richard senior had been in Sydney since at least 1844 when he was noted as assistant staff surgeon to the 58th regiment.

Sir Richard Bannatine-Allason    by Walter Stoneman  bromide print, 1924  NPG x162437  © National Portrait Gallery, London

By 1861 census the family was living at Glaisnnock House in Cumnock

Richard Bannatine     45  Landed Proprietor Employing 1 Man & 4 Woman b Edinburgh
Charlotte Bannatine     30 wife b Australia
Charlotte J Bannatine     8 dau b Australia
Richard A Bannatine     5 son b O Cumnock
Elizabeth C Bannatine     3 dau b O Cumnock
Owen A Bannatine     1 son b O Cumnock
Marian Owen     23 sister in law anuitant b Australia
Robt Bannatine     53 brother  annuitant b Edinburgh
Mary Allan     23 servant nurse b Australia
Grace Murdoch     24 servant cook b Kirkconnel
Jane Gillespie     33 servant housemaid b Ireland
Christena Love     15 servant under nurse b Cumnock

A fifth child Rachel Marion Bannatine was born in 1861.
The father died in 1867 in Kent and the family seems to have remained mainly in the south of England. None of the three girls married. Richard himself doesn't appear to have married. Brother Owen married and lived in India for a while.

Richard by then a Lieutenant in the Royal Horse Artillery is visiting William Allason Cunninghame at Logan House in the 1881 census. He must be a relation. Richard has Cunninghams of Glengarnock in his ancestry. Many of his ancestors were Church of Scotland ministers and there are good records of them in the Fasti Ecclesiasticae.
Also helpful was " A genealogical account of the principal families of Ayrshire" by George Robertson 1823 available online here

In his seventies he travelled a lot between Port Said to London. His address was Little Kames, Sunninghill, Berkshire

Sir Richard died in Sunninghill, Berkshire in 1940. He left over £4,00 to Theodore Henry Bayford Owen an east India merchant.

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