Alexander Baillie-Cochrane Vanity Fair 2 December 1871

Alexander Dundas Ross Cochrane-Wishart-Baillie, 1st Baron Lamington (24 November 1816 – 15 February 1890), better known as Alexander Baillie-Cochrane, was a British

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politician perhaps best known for his association with

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in the early 1840s. The son of Admiral of the Fleet Sir

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, he succeeded to the Baillie estate at

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in 1833. He attended

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before entering

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as a

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for

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in 1841. He later sat for

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, and finally the

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until 1880 when he was made a peer and went to the

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as Baron Lamington, of

in the County of Lanark. In 1844 he married Annabella Mary Elizabeth Drummond, daughter of Andrew Drummond of Cadlands, Hampshire and a granddaughter of

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. Through the marriage of Annabella's sister Frederica, he was brother-in-law to the

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. They had four children. He was succeeded in his honours and lands by his only son, Charles Wallace Alexander Napier, second baron Lamington, who was appointed

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in 1895. A daughter Constance Mary Elizabeth Baillie-Cochrane (1846–1929) married Reginald Windsor Sackville, 7th Earl De La Warr on 7 February 1867.Westminster, London, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1935

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