George Baillie-Hamilton, 12th Earl of Haddington

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George Baillie-Hamilton, 12th Earl of Haddington KT MC TD ( September 18, 1894 - April 17, 1986 ) was a Scottish peer, politician and British military.

Life

Haddington was the son of General George Baillie-Hamilton, Lord Binning . His training took place at Eton College and the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst . During the First World War he was awarded the Military Cross , he was captain of the Royal Scots Grays and served, among other things, as a major in the 19th (Lothians and Border Horse ) scout vehicle company in the Territorial Army. He was also a member of the Royal Company of Archers . He followed his grandfather as Earl of Haddington in 1917 , as his father had died earlier. The family tradition includes a number of Covenanters who advocated Scottish Presbyterianism and opposed the introduction of the Anglican State Church in Scotland.

During World War II he was wing commander (lieutenant colonel) in the Royal Air Force . Since 1953 he was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh . In 1957 he became president of the Georgian Group of Edinburgh, which later became part of the Architectural Heritage Society of Scotland . He lived with his family in Tyninghame House and designed a number of landscaped gardens in the area.

He was married to Sarah Cook, daughter of George William Cook, since 1923. The couple had two children:

  1. Lady Mary Baillie-Hamilton (* 1934),
  2. John George Baillie-Hamilton, 13th Earl of Haddington (1941-2016).

Lady Mary attended the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II as a maiden of honor .

Public offices

From 1922 to 1958, Baillie-Hamilton sat as the Scottish Representative Peer in the House of Lords . The Earl was Deputy Lieutenant (DL) of East Lothian from 1929 to 1946 , Vice-Lord Lieutenant of East Lothian from 1946 to 1952, and Lord Lieutenant of East Lothian and Berwickshire from 1952 to 1970 . He served as a justice of the peace in East Lothian and Berwickshire. He was accepted into the Order of the Thistle in 1952 and received an honorary doctorate (Doctor of Law LL. D.) from Glasgow University in 1957 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ George Baillie-Hamilton, 12th Earl of Haddington on thepeerage.com , accessed August 20, 2015.
  2. ↑ “Who was Who” 1897–2007 London, A & C Black , 2007 ISBN 978-0-19-954087-7
  3. ^ Fellows Directory. Biographical Index: Former RSE Fellows 1783–2002. (PDF) Royal Society of Edinburgh, accessed December 15, 2019 .
  4. ^ Robertson, Eleanor: The Story of the Society . Architectural Heritage Society of Scotland. 1997. Archived from the original on July 18, 2011. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved March 23, 2014. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ahss.org.uk
  5. ↑ Garden and Designed Landscape - entry . In: Historic Scotland .
  6. ↑ Sarah Oliver: 'We were the Queen's Coronation Spice Girls!': A disastrous perm, fainting fits and nightclubbing with Arab sheiks . In: Daily Mail . 

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predecessor Office successor
George Baillie-Hamilton Earl of Haddington
1917-1986 		John George Baillie-Hamilton
personal data
SURNAME Baillie-Hamilton, George, 12th Earl of Haddington
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Baillie-Hamilton, George, Lord Binning
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Scottish peer and politician
DATE OF BIRTH September 18, 1894
DATE OF DEATH April 17, 1986