Sir William Baillie, 2nd Baronet
Sir William Baillie of Polkemmet, 2nd Baronet, DL (2 February 1816 – 21 July 1890)[1] was a Scottish oarsman and Conservative[2] politician who sat in the British House of Commons between 1845 and 1847.
Life[edit]
Born in Edinburgh, he was the eldest son of Sir William Baillie, 1st Baronet and his wife Mary Lyon Dennistoun, the youngest daughter of James Dennistoun.[3] Baillie was educated at Eton College and then at Christ Church, Oxford, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1836.[4]
While at Oxford, he rowed in the Oxford eight in the second Boat Race which was held in 1836, when Cambridge won.[5] He was also a part of the Head of the River crew at Oxford with his college boat, Christ Church.
Baillie served as captain in the Midlothian Yeomanry Cavalry,[3] and was Lieutenant-Colonel commanding the Edinburgh City Artillery from 1866 to 1884.[6][7] In 1845 he was elected Member of Parliament for Linlithgowshire, sitting for the next two years.[8] Baillie was a Deputy Lieutenant of Linlithgowshire from 1850 and was a Justice of the Peace.[3]
In 1878 he was the honorary commander of the City Artillery Volunteer Corps based at 27 Cockburn Street, Edinburgh.[9]
Family[edit]
On 14 April 1846, Baillie married Mary Stewart, the eldest daughter of Stair Hathorn Stewart.[10] In 1854, he succeeded his father as baronet,[4] and when Baillie died childless in 1890, he was succeeded in the baronetcy by his nephew George.[10]
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References[edit]
- ^ "Leigh Rayment - Baronetage". Archived from the original on 1 May 2008. Retrieved 27 August 2009.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) - ^ Craig, F. W. S. (1989) [1977]. British parliamentary election results 1832–1885 (2nd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. p. 595. ISBN 0-900178-26-4.
- ^ a b c Dod, Robert P. (1860). The Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage of Great Britain and Ireland. London: Whitaker and Co. p. 100.
- ^ a b Walford, Edward (1860). The County Families of the United Kingdom. London: Robert Hardwicke. pp. 26.
- ^ George Gilbert Treherne Treherne; John Haviland Dashwood Goldie (1884). Record of the university boat race, 1829-1883. London: Bickers & Son, Leicester Square. pp. 14, 167. Retrieved 22 February 2011.
- ^ Army List.
- ^ Maj-Gen J.M. Grierson, Records of the Scottish Volunteer Force 1859–1908, Edinburgh: Blackwood, 1909, pp. 128–30.
- ^ "Leigh Rayment - British House of Commons, Linlithgowshire". Archived from the original on 29 October 2008. Retrieved 27 August 2009.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) - ^ Grant's Old and New Edinburgh vol.2 p.283
- ^ a b Burke, John (2001). Peter de Vere Beauclerk-Dewar (ed.). Burke's Landed Gentry of Great Britain. p. 40. ISBN 0-9711966-0-5.