George Baillie-Hamilton, 11th Earl of Haddington
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George Baillie-Hamilton-Arden, 11th Earl of Haddington KT
Order of the Thistle
The Most Ancient and Most Noble Order of the Thistle is an order of chivalry associated with Scotland. The current version of the Order was founded in 1687 by King James VII of Scotland who asserted that he was reviving an earlier Order...

 (26 July 1827 – 11 June 1917) was the son of George Baillie-Hamilton, 10th Earl of Haddington
George Baillie-Hamilton, 10th Earl of Haddington
George Baillie-Hamilton, 10th Earl of Haddington , known as George Baillie until 1858, was a Scottish Conservative politician....

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He was High Sheriff of Cheshire
High Sheriff of Cheshire
The High Sheriff is the oldest secular office under the Crown. Formerly the High Sheriff was the principal law enforcement officer in the county but over the centuries most of the responsibilities associated with the post have been transferred elsewhere or are now defunct, so that its functions...

 in 1871.

On 17 October 1854, he married Helen Katharine Warrender and they had seven children:
  • Isabel Baillie-Hamilton (d. 1859)
  • Lady Ruth Baillie-Hamilton (1855–1941)
  • George Baillie-Hamilton, Lord Binning
    George Baillie-Hamilton, Lord Binning
    Brigadier-General George Baillie-Hamilton, Lord Binning, CB, MVO was a British Army officer; he was styled "Lord Binning" as a courtesy title....

     (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
George Baillie-Hamilton, 12th Earl of Haddington
George Baillie-Hamilton, 12th Earl of Haddington, Kt, MC, TD , was a Scottish Peer from 1917 to 1986. Educated at Eton and Sandhurst, he was awarded the Military Cross during the First World War. In World War II he was a Wing Commander in the RAFVR. He was Lord Lieutenant of Berwickshire from 1952...

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