George Baillie-Hamilton, Lord Binning
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(24 December 1856 – 12 January 1917) was a British Army
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officer; he was styled "Lord Binning" as a courtesy title
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He was born in 1856, the second child and eldest son of George Baillie-Hamilton-Arden, 11th Earl of Haddington. After an education at Eton
Eton College
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and Trinity College, Cambridge
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, he was commissioned in the Royal Horse Guards
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on 11 September 1880. He served with distinction in the 1882 Anglo-Egyptian War, the Nile Expedition
Nile Expedition
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of 1884, and the Hazara campaign of 1888. In 1889 he was appointed aide-de-camp
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to the Viceroy of India, and from 1899 to 1903 held the command of the Royal Horse Guards
Royal Horse Guards
The Royal Horse Guards was a cavalry regiment of the British Army, part of the Household Cavalry.Founded August 1650 in Newcastle Upon Tyne by Sir Arthur Haselrig on the orders of Oliver Cromwell as the Regiment of Cuirassiers, the regiment became the Earl of Oxford's Regiment during the reign of...
. He retired from the army in 1907, but remained in the Territorial Force
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as commanding officer of the Lothian and Border Horse
Lothian and Border Horse
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He was appointed a temporary Brigadier-General in December 1915, and given command of 41st Brigade in 14th (Light) Division. He remained in command until April 1916, returning home to command 11th Mounted Brigade.
In 1892 he had married Katharine Salting, with whom he had two sons and a daughter. He died a few months before his father, and so did not succeed to the title of the Earl of Haddington
Earl of Haddington
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; instead, it passed to his eldest son, George Baillie-Hamilton
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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