Brigadier-General George Baillie-Hamilton, Lord Binning, CB, MVO,

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officer; he was styled "Lord Binning" as a courtesy title.

Life

He was born in 1856, the second child and eldest son of

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and Helen Katherine, daughter of Sir John Warrender, 5th baronet of Lochend by Frances Arden. Educated at

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and

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, he was commissioned in the Royal Horse Guards on 11 September 1880.

Military career

Baillie-Hamilton served with distinction in the 1882 Anglo-Egyptian War and the Nile Expedition of 1884. In 1889 he was appointed aide-de-camp to the

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during the

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, being mentioned in despatches. From 1899 to 1903 he was commanding officer of the Royal Horse Guards. As such he was involved in the military arrangements for the

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in August 1902, and three days after the ceremony he was appointed a Member (4th class) of the

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(MVO) on 12 August 1902, during a private audience with King

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. He retired from the army in 1907, but remained in the

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as commanding officer of the

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, and served as His Majesty's Lieutenant of the County of Berwick from 1901 until he died. He was appointed a temporary Brigadier-General in December 1915, on receiving command of 41st Brigade in

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. He remained in command until April 1916, returning to Britain to take charge of the

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Personal life

In 1892 he had married Katharine Millicent Salting, only child of Mr. W. S. Salting, with whom he had two sons and a daughter. He died, aged sixty, five months before his father so did not inherit the title and possible election in the

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(as a

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) as the

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; instead, it passed to his eldest son, George Baillie-Hamilton. His widow, Lady Binning, donated Fenton House in Hampstead, London to the

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on her death in 1952.

References

;Bibliography *Obituary: p. 154, ''The Annual Register: a review of public events at home and abroad, for the year 1917''. London: Longmans, Green and Co. 1918.
Lord George Baillie-Hamilton Binning
Centre for First World War Studies.

External links

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