Brigadier-General George Baillie-Hamilton, Lord Binning, CB, MVO, ADC, DL (24 December 1856 – 12 January 1917) was a

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officer; he was styled "Lord Binning" as a

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Life

He was born in 1856, the second child and eldest son of George Baillie-Hamilton-Arden, 11th Earl of Haddington 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

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on 11 September 1880.

Military career

Baillie-Hamilton served with distinction in the

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and the

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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 11th Mounted Brigade.

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 from pneumonia in

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on 12 January 1917, aged sixty, five months before his father. He thus 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

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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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