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

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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 (

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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 for

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and

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), had inherited the baronetcy from his childless uncle,

Sir William Baillie, 2nd Baronet Sir William Baillie of Polkemmet, 2nd Baronet, Deputy Lieutenant, DL (2 February 1816 – 21 July 1890) was a Scottish oarsman and Conservative Party (UK), Conservative politician who sat in the British House of Commons between 1845 and 1847. Li ...

, a

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Member of Parliament for

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. 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 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

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) and Mary (née Baillie) Price (wife of Thomas Caradoc Rose Price). Baillie was educated at

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and at

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Career

Sir Adrian served with the

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in France in 1918, gaining the rank of Lieutenant. After the war ended, he entered the

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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

at the request of

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. He was defeated by Labour politician

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in 1929, but ran again in

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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

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by George Mathers (who later became the first Baron Mathers). After the death from influenza of

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, he was then elected as

MP for

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at a by-election in 1937, but stood down in

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. 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

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and his American wife, Pauline Payne (née Whitney) Paget of the prominent

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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

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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

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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 (1934–2003), who married Lucille Margot Beaubien, the daughter of Senator Louis Beaubien 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

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from

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in 1939. Sir Adrian died on 8 January 1947. He was buried at Whitburn South Parish Churchyard at Whitburn at

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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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Deputy lieutenants of West Lothian Unionist Party (Scotland) MPs