Sir Adrian William Maxwell Baillie, 6th Baronet
DL (5 May 1898 – 8 January 1947) was a British MP for two constituencies.
Early life
Baillie was born on 5 May 1898. He was the second son of Sir Robert Alexander Baillie, 4th Baronet (1859–1947) and Isabel, Lady Baillie.
Upon the death of his elder brother, Sir Gawaine Baillie, 5th Baronet, in 1914 during
World War I
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, he became the 6th Baronet while still at Eton.
His maternal grandfather was David Elliot Wilkie and his paternal grandparents were Thomas Baillie and Elizabeth (
née
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Ballingall) Baillie. His father's older brother, Sir George Baillie, 3rd Baronet (who died unmarried at an early age and was a
Justice of the Peace
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for
New South Wales
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and
Victoria
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), had inherited the baronetcy from his childless uncle,
Sir William Baillie, 2nd Baronet
Sir William Baillie of Polkemmet, 2nd Baronet, DL (2 February 1816 – 21 July 1890) was a Scottish oarsman and Conservative politician who sat in the British House of Commons between 1845 and 1847.
Life
Born in Edinburgh, he was the eldest s ...
, a
Conservative
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Member of Parliament
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for
Linlithgowshire
West Lothian ( sco, Wast Lowden; gd, Lodainn an Iar) is one of the 32 council areas of Scotland, and was one of its historic counties. The county was called Linlithgowshire until 1925. The historic county was bounded geographically by the Av ...
. The first baronet was Sir William Baillie (a son of
William Baillie, Lord Polkemmet), who was created the
Baillie baronet of
Polkemmet in the
County of Linlithgow
West Lothian ( sco, Wast Lowden; gd, Lodainn an Iar) is one of the 32 council areas of Scotland, and was one of its shires of Scotland, historic counties. The county was called Linlithgowshire until 1925. The historic county was bounded geogra ...
in 1819. Among his extended family was aunts, Elizabeth (née Baillie) Cavendish (wife of William Edwin Cavendish, son of the
2nd Baron Chesham, and sister-in-law of both the
3rd Baron Chesham and
1st Duke of Westminster
Hugh Lupus Grosvenor, 1st Duke of Westminster, (13 October 1825 – 22 December 1899), styled Viscount Belgrave between 1831 and 1845, Earl Grosvenor between 1845 and 1869, and known as The Marquess of Westminster between 1869 and 1874, was an ...
) and Mary (née Baillie) Price (wife of
Thomas Caradoc Rose Price).
Baillie was educated at
Eton College
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and at
Royal Military Academy Sandhurst
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.
Career
Sir Adrian served with the
Royal Scots Greys
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in France in 1918, gaining the rank of Lieutenant. After the war ended, he entered the
Diplomatic Service
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and served as the Second Secretary to the
British Embassy at Washington from 1924 to 1928.
Political career
While back in the United Kingdom on leave during the summer of 1928, Sir Adrian agreed to contest the parliamentary constituency of
Linlithgowshire
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at the request of
Victor Hope, 2nd Marquess of Linlithgow
Victor Alexander John Hope, 2nd Marquess of Linlithgow, (24 September 1887 – 5 January 1952) was a British Unionist politician, agriculturalist, and colonial administrator. He served as Governor-General and Viceroy of India from 1936 to 1943 ...
. He was defeated by
Labour
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politician
Manny Shinwell
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in 1929, but ran again in
1931
Events
January
* January 2 – South Dakota native Ernest Lawrence invents the cyclotron, used to accelerate particles to study nuclear physics.
* January 4 – German pilot Elly Beinhorn begins her flight to Africa.
* January 22 – Sir I ...
where he was elected as
Unionist Party MP for Linlithgowshire,
where his family home was situated.
Sir Adrian was defeated in his attempt at reelection in
1935
Events
January
* January 7 – Italian premier Benito Mussolini and French Foreign Minister Pierre Laval conclude Franco-Italian Agreement of 1935, an agreement, in which each power agrees not to oppose the other's colonial claims.
* ...
by
George Mathers (who later became the first
Baron Mathers). After the death from influenza of
Herbert Spender-Clay
Herbert Henry Spender-Clay, PC CMG DL JP (4 June 1875 – 15 February 1937) was an English soldier and Conservative Party politician. He sat in the House of Commons from 1910 to 1937.
Early life
Herbert Henry Spender-Clay was born on 4 June ...
, he was then elected as
Conservative
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MP for
Tonbridge
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at
a by-election in 1937, but stood down in
1945
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Events
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Januar ...
.
Sir Adrian, reportedly "devoted himself to his constituents and to campaigning for improved conditions for agricultural workers."
Personal life
On 4 November 1931, at Holy Trinity Church in London, he was married to the former
Olive Cecilia Paget (1899–1974), the eldest daughter of Englishman
Almeric Paget, 1st Baron Queenborough
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and his American wife,
Pauline Payne (née Whitney) Paget of the prominent
Whitney family
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.
Olive, who was educated in France and served briefly as a wartime nurse, had been married, and divorced, twice before. With her first husband, the Hon. Charles John Frederick Winn (son of
Baron St Oswald
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of
Nostell Priory
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), she was the mother of two daughters; Pauline Winn (b. 1920) and Susan Winn (1923–2001) before their divorce in 1925. With her second husband, Arthur Wilson Filmer, whom she married in 1925, she bought
Leeds Castle
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A castle has existed on the site since 857. In the 13th century, it came into the ...
in
Kent
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, which she retained after their divorce in 1931.
Together, Adrian and Olive were the parents of one child before their marriage also ended in divorce in 1944:
*
Sir Gawaine Baillie, 7th Baronet
Sir Gawaine George Hope Baillie, 7th Baronet (8 March 1934 – 21 December 2003) was a British amateur motor racing driver, engineer, industrialist, stamp collector, and the owner of the estate surrounding Leeds Castle, the ancient fortress ...
(1934–2003), who married Lucille Margot Beaubien, the daughter of Senator
Louis Beaubien
Louis Beaubien (July 27, 1837 – July 19, 1915) was a Canadian politician.
Early life
Born in Montreal, Lower Canada, the son of Pierre Beaubien, a physician and politician, and Marie-Justine Casgrain, he was one of the founders of Out ...
of Montreal, in 1966.
He was a friend of the actor
Douglas Fairbanks Sr., and was involved in a car accident in Fairbanks car while en route to
Palm Springs, California
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from
Los Angeles
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in 1939.
Sir Adrian died on 8 January 1947.
He was buried at Whitburn South Parish Churchyard at Whitburn at
West Lothian
West Lothian ( sco, Wast Lowden; gd, Lodainn an Iar) is one of the 32 council areas of Scotland, and was one of its shires of Scotland, historic counties. The county was called Linlithgowshire until 1925. The historic county was bounded geogra ...
,
Scotland
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.
Descendants
Through his son Gawaine, he was the paternal grandfather of Liza Baillie (b. 1969) and
Sir Adrian Baillie, 8th Baronet (b. 1973).
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1898 births
1947 deaths
People educated at Eton College
Graduates of the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst
Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Scottish constituencies
UK MPs 1931–1935
Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies
UK MPs 1935–1945
Baronets in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom
Deputy Lieutenants of West Lothian
Unionist Party (Scotland) MPs