Michael Baillie, 3rd Baron Burton

Michael Evan Victor Baillie, 3rd Baron Burton (born June 27, 1924 - May 30, 2013 in Inverness ) was a British peer and politician of the Conservative Party .

Life

Family and education

Michael Baillie was the eldest son of Brigadier Hon. George Evan Michael Baillie (1894–1941) and his wife, Lady Maud Louisa Emma Cavendish (1896–1975). On the death of his paternal grandmother in 1962, Burton Boyle inherited the title of Baron Burton , of Burton-on-Trent and of Rangemore in the County of Stafford, created in the Peerage of the United Kingdom in 1897.

He attended Eton College in Berkshire ; there he was a member of the boxing club . After graduating, he joined the Scots Guards , where he reached the rank of lieutenant in 1943 . During the Second World War he was with the Scots Guards and later with the Lovat Scouts in the military service. 1948 he became a lieutenant with the Lovat Scouts (Territorial Army).

Large landowners

Baillie was a large landowner and farmer . He was one of the richest landowners in Scotland ; in 1967 his holdings comprised 38,000 acres . He owned estates in Dochfour (with the family estate), Cluanie , Glen Shiel and Glen Quoich . With the legacy of the barony, the Bass Brewery , an important beer brewery , passed on to him.

In addition, Baillie was involved in local politics . He was a councilor ( Councilor ) in Inverness County Council (1948-1975), then later in Inverness District Council (1984-1992).

Baillie was a staunch opponent of land reform . He was a board ( executive ) of the Scottish Landowners Federation (1963-1992). He defended his property with the attitude of a traditional Scottish lord of the Highlands . He was involved in police and judicial investigations several times, as he sometimes expelled unwelcome visitors from his property with threats and violence. In 1964 he was fined £ 20 . Baillie had rammed the hood in the back of a hand of a local auto repair agent who had illegally inspected Baillie's car near the family home. When asked about it, he said he was amazed that the workshop employee was injured. In 1992 he was convicted of rioting and disturbing the peace . He had screamed loudly, driving a woman off a private road he owned near Inverness. Baillie denied the accusation with the argument that he just had a loud voice. He also had an argument with a truck driver who was blocking the entrance to his property.

Baillie is considered a role model for the character of the Patriarch in the BBC television series Monarch of the Glen ; his role was played by actor Richard Briers .

He spoke out against the establishment of the main office of the Scottish Natural Heritage in Craig Dunain , d. H. the authority responsible for the conservation of Scotland's natural heritage. He also spoke out against the destruction of traditional salmon grounds through illegal fishing, especially by urban excursionists. He was one of the proponents of the four-lane expansion of the A9 , the Highland Highway , in order to reduce the number of fatal accidents.

Membership in the House of Lords

With the inheritance of the title of Baron Burton, Baillie became an official member of the House of Lords after the death of his grandmother Lady Burton on May 28, 1962 . In the House of Lords he sat for the Conservative Party . He gave his inaugural address on June 11, 1964.

He served on various committees in the House of Lords. In 1965 he spoke out in the House of Lords against the Highlands and Islands (Development) Bill introduced by the Labor government . In 1970 he accused the government of taking too little legislative action against the eradication of brucellosis , which his wife and daughter were also suffering from. In the late 1970s he opposed an autonomous and independent Scottish Parliament ( Scottish Assembly ). In his view, any form of self-government would eventually fall into the hands of Scottish nationalists.

In the Hansard , word contributions by Baillies from the years 1964 to 1999 are documented. In the 1997/1998 session he was present on 19 days. In November 1999, he last spoke up in the House of Lords. His membership in the House of Lords ended in 1999 with the House of Lords Act 1999 . He noted the compulsory exclusion with disappointment.

honors and awards

Between 1961 and 1975 he was Justice of the Peace in the county of Inverness-shire . He was Deputy Lieutenant of the County of Inverness-shire from 1963 to 1965 .

He was from 1994 to 2000 Grand Master ( Grand Master Mason ) of the Grand Lodge of Masons of Scotland ( Grand Lodge of Antient, Free and Accepted Masons of Scotland ).

Private

Baillie was married twice in total. On April 28, 1948 he married his great cousin Elizabeth Ursula Foster Wise († 1993), the daughter of Captain Anthony Forster Wise. The marriage ended in divorce in 1977. The marriage had six children, two sons and four daughters. In 1978 he married Coralie Denise Cliffe for the second time; their family came from Natal Province , South Africa . He lived with his second wife on the family estate in Dochfour near the Dochgarroch Lodge, not far from Loch Ness .

Hunting (stalking) and fishing were among his private interests . His second wife shared these hobbies with him.

Baillie died at the age of 88 after a long illness. For the last few weeks he lived in the Highview House Nursing Home , a retirement and nursing home, in Inverness, where he also died.

The heir to the title is his eldest son Evan Michael Ronald Baillie (* 1949); he lives in Australia .

Web links

• Michael Baillie at Hansard (English)
• Death of colorful Highland Laird obituary in: The Inverness Courier, June 4, 2013
• Lord Burton of Duchour obituary in: The Herald Scotland, June 5, 2013

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Michael Evan Victor Baillie, 3rd Baron Burton 1924-2013 death report in: Peerage News from June 5, 2013
2. ↑ ^{a b} Michael Evan Victor Baillie, 3rd Baron Burton of Burton-on-Trent and of Rangemore on thepeerage.com , accessed September 18, 2016.
3. ↑ ^{a b c d} Lord Burton of Dochfour obituary in: The Herald Scotland, June 5, 2013
4. ↑ ^{a b c d} Death of colorful Highland Laird obituary in: The Inverness Courier, June 4, 2013
5. ↑ SPRAY IRRIGATION (SCOTLAND) BILL Text of the speech of June 11, 1964
6. ↑ House of Lords: Membership ( Memento of the original dated December 22, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Attendance on the days of the 1997/1998 session) 

predecessor	Office	successor
Nellie Baillie	Baron Burton 1962-2013	Evan Baillie