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

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

Life

Tyninghame House

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

Lord Haddington was elected a representative peer from 1874 until his death. He was High Sheriff of Cheshire in 1871.[1] 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.[2]

He lived at Tyninghame House near Prestonkirk in East Lothian.[3]

Marriage and issue

On 17 October 1854, he married Helen Katharine Warrender (1834-1889),[4] heiress and grand-daughter of Richard Arden, 1st Baron Alvanley, and had issue:[5]

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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Masonic offices
Preceded by
The Lord Blythswood
Grand Master of the
Grand Lodge of Scotland

18921893
Succeeded by
Charles Dalrymple
Honorary titles
Preceded by
The Marquess of Tweedale
Lord Lieutenant of East Lothian
18761917
Succeeded by
The Earl of Wemyss
Peerage of Scotland
Preceded by
George Baillie-Hamilton
Earl of Haddington
18701917
Succeeded by
George Baillie-Hamilton


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