George Baillie-Hamilton-Arden, 11th Earl of Haddington explained

Honorific Prefix:The Right Honourable
The Earl of Haddington
Birth Date:26 July 1827
Occupation:Landowner, peer
Children:George Baillie-Hamilton, Lord Binning

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

Life

Lord Haddington was the son of George Baillie-Hamilton, 10th Earl of Haddington, and Georgina Markham.

Lord Haddington was elected a Scottish representative peer from 1874 until his death. He was High Sheriff of Cheshire in 1871. He was created Lord Lieutenant of Haddingtonshire in 1874. He was honorary Colonel of the Lothians and Border Horse and an officer in the Royal Company of Archers.

In 1886, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Sir Thomas Grainger Stewart, Robert Grey, Sir William Turner, and Peter Guthrie Tait. He resigned from the Society in 1892.[1]

Lord Haddington was appointed a Knight of the Order of the Thistle (KT) in the 1902 Coronation Honours list published on 26 June 1902,[2] and was invested by King Edward VII at Buckingham Palace on 8 August 1902.[3]

He lived at Tyninghame House near Prestonkirk in East Lothian.[4]

Lord Haddington was a leading Scottish Freemason. He was the Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Scotland from 1892 to 1894 and the Grand Master of the Royal Order of Scotland from 1891 to 1917.[5] [6]

Marriage and issue

On 17 October 1854, he married Helen Katharine Warrender (1834–1889). The marriage produced seven children:[4]

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.

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Notes and References

  1. Book: Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002. July 2006. The Royal Society of Edinburgh. 0-902-198-84-X. 5 September 2016. 24 January 2013. https://web.archive.org/web/20130124115814/http://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp1.pdf. dead.
  2. The Coronation Honours . 26 June 1902 . 5 . 36804.
  3. Court Circular . 9 August 1902 . 6 . 36842.
  4. Web site: George BAILLIE-HAMILTON-ARDEN, 11th Earl of Haddington b. 26 JUL 1827 d. 11 JUN 1917 : British Roots . 5 September 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160915134711/http://www.newtons-online.net/getperson.php?personID=I5137&tree=OurGenealogy . 15 September 2016 . dead .
  5. Book: Logan . Norman Davis . Drink and Society: Scotland 1870–1914: thesis presented for the Degree of Ph.D. of the University of Glasgow . October 1983 . 247 . 1 August 2024.
  6. Web site: About Us Royal Order Of Scotland PGL USA . 1 August 2024.