George Baillie-Hamilton, 12th Earl of Haddington, Kt

Order of the Thistle

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, MC

Military Cross

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, TD

Territorial Decoration

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 (18 September 1894 - 17 April 1986), was a Scottish

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 Peer

Peerage of Scotland

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 from 1917 to 1986. Educated at Eton

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 and Sandhurst

Royal Military Academy Sandhurst

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, he was awarded the Military Cross

Military Cross

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 during the First World War. In World War II

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 he was a Wing Commander

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 in the RAFVR. He was Lord Lieutenant of Berwickshire

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 from 1952 to 1969. In 1957 he became the first president of the Georgian Group of Edinburgh, later the Architectural Heritage Society of Scotland

Architectural Heritage Society of Scotland

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. He lived at Tyninghame House

Tyninghame House

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in East Lothian, where he and his wife created and replanted several formal gardens.