George Baillie-Hamilton-Arden, 11th Earl of Haddington, (26 July 1827 – 11 June 1917), was a Scottish landowner and representative peer.

Life

Lord Haddington was the son of

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, and Georgina Markham. Lord Haddington was elected a representative peer from 1874 until his death. He was

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in 1871. He was created

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in 1874. He was honorary Colonel of the

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and an officer in the

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. In 1886, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Sir

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, Robert Grey,

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, and

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. He resigned from the Society in 1892. Lord Haddington was appointed a Knight of the

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(KT) in the 1902 Coronation Honours list published on 26 June 1902, and was invested by King

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on 8 August 1902. He lived at

Tyninghame House Tyninghame House is a mansion in East Lothian, Scotland. It is located by the mouth of the River Tyne, east of Tyninghame, and west of Dunbar. There was a manor at Tyninghame in 1094, and it was later a property of the Lauder of The Bass fami ...

near

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in East Lothian.

Marriage and issue

On 17 October 1854, he married Helen Katharine Warrender (1834–1889). The marriage produced seven children: *Isabel Baillie-Hamilton (d. 1859) *Lady Ruth Baillie-Hamilton (1855–1941) *

George Baillie-Hamilton, Lord Binning Brigadier-General George Baillie-Hamilton, Lord Binning, CB, MVO, ADC, DL (24 December 1856 – 12 January 1917) was a British Army officer; he was styled "Lord Binning" as a courtesy title. Life He was born in 1856, the second child and ...

(1856–1917) *Lt. Hon. Richard Baillie-Hamilton (1858–1881) *Lady Grisell Baillie-Hamilton (1861–1957) *Captain Hon. Henry Robert Baillie-Hamilton-Arden (1862–1949) *Lady Cecely Baillie-Hamilton (1868–1950) His eldest son George predeceased him by a few months, dying in January 1917, and so the title passed to his grandson

George Baillie-Hamilton, 12th Earl of Haddington George Baillie-Hamilton, 12th Earl of Haddington (18 September 1894 – 17 April 1986), was a Scottish peer from 1917 to 1986. Life Haddington was the son of Brigadier-General George Baillie-Hamilton, Lord Binning and Katherine Salting (d.195 ...

References

Sources

* Balfour Paul, Sir J.
''Scots Peerage''
IX vols. Edinburgh 1904. 1827 births 1917 deaths 11 Knights of the Thistle Lord-Lieutenants of East Lothian Scottish representative peers Governors of the Bank of Scotland High Sheriffs of Cheshire Members of the Royal Company of Archers

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