Adrian Baillie | |
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| Member of Parliament forTonbridge | |
| In office 23 March 1937 – 15 June 1945 | |
| Preceded by | Herbert Spender-Clay |
| Succeeded by | Gerald Wellington Williams |
| Member of Parliament forLinlithgowshire | |
| In office 27 October 1931 – 25 October 1935 | |
| Preceded by | Manny Shinwell |
| Succeeded by | George Mathers |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Adrian William Maxwell Baillie (1898-05-05)5 May 1898 |
| Died | 8 January 1947(1947-01-08) (aged 48) |
| Political party | Unionist Conservative |
| Spouse | |
| Children | Sir Gawaine Baillie, 7th Baronet |
| Education | Eton College |
| Alma mater | Royal Military Academy Sandhurst |
Sir Adrian William Maxwell Baillie, 6th BaronetDL (5 May 1898 – 8 January 1947)[1] was a British MP for two constituencies.
Baillie was born on 5 May 1898. He was the second son of Sir Robert Alexander Baillie, 4th Baronet (1859–1947) and Isabel, Lady Baillie.[2] Upon the death of his elder brother, Sir Gawaine Baillie, 5th Baronet, in 1914 duringWorld War I, he became the 6th Baronet while still at Eton.[3]
His maternal grandfather was David Elliot Wilkie and his paternal grandparents were Thomas Baillie and Elizabeth (néeBallingall) Baillie. His father's older brother, Sir George Baillie, 3rd Baronet (who died unmarried at an early age and was aJustice of the Peace forNew South Wales andVictoria), had inherited the baronetcy from his childless uncle,Sir William Baillie, 2nd Baronet, aConservativeMember of Parliament forLinlithgowshire. The first baronet was Sir William Baillie (a son ofWilliam Baillie, Lord Polkemmet), who was created theBaillie baronet ofPolkemmet in theCounty of Linlithgow in 1819.[4] Among his extended family was aunts, Elizabeth (née Baillie) Cavendish (wife of William Edwin Cavendish, son of the2nd Baron Chesham, and sister-in-law of both the3rd Baron Chesham and1st Duke of Westminster) and Mary (née Baillie) Price (wife ofThomas Caradoc Rose Price).[5]
Baillie was educated atEton College and atRoyal Military Academy Sandhurst.[6]
Sir Adrian served with theRoyal Scots Greys in France in 1918, gaining the rank of Lieutenant. After the war ended, he entered theDiplomatic Service and served as the Second Secretary to theBritish Embassy at Washington from 1924 to 1928.[6]
While back in the United Kingdom on leave during the summer of 1928, Sir Adrian agreed to contest the parliamentary constituency ofLinlithgowshire at the request ofVictor Hope, 2nd Marquess of Linlithgow. He was defeated byLabour politicianManny Shinwell in 1929, but ran again in1931 where he was elected asUnionist Party MP for Linlithgowshire,[7] where his family home was situated.[6]
Sir Adrian was defeated in his attempt at reelection in1935 byGeorge Mathers (who later became the firstBaron Mathers). After the death from influenza ofHerbert Spender-Clay, he was then elected asConservative MP forTonbridge ata by-election in 1937, but stood down in1945.[6] Sir Adrian, reportedly "devoted himself to his constituents and to campaigning for improved conditions for agricultural workers."[6]
On 4 November 1931, at Holy Trinity Church in London, he was married to the formerOlive Cecilia Paget (1899–1974), the eldest daughter of EnglishmanAlmeric Paget, 1st Baron Queenborough and his American wife,Pauline Payne (née Whitney) Paget of the prominentWhitney family.[8] Olive, who was educated in France and served briefly as a wartime nurse, had been married, and divorced, twice before. With her first husband, the Hon. Charles John Frederick Winn (son ofBaron St Oswald ofNostell Priory), she was the mother of two daughters; Pauline Winn (b. 1920)[a] and Susan Winn (1923–2001)[b] before their divorce in 1925. With her second husband, Arthur Wilson Filmer, whom she married in 1925, she boughtLeeds Castle inKent, which she retained after their divorce in 1931.[8] Together, Adrian and Olive were the parents of one child before their marriage also ended in divorce in 1944:
He was a friend of the actorDouglas Fairbanks Sr., and was involved in a car accident in Fairbanks car while en route toPalm Springs, California fromLos Angeles in 1939.[13]
Sir Adrian died on 8 January 1947. He was buried at Whitburn South Parish Churchyard at Whitburn atWest Lothian,Scotland.
Through his son Gawaine, he was the paternal grandfather of Liza Baillie (b. 1969) andSir Adrian Baillie, 8th Baronet (b. 1973).[11][14]
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| Parliament of the United Kingdom | ||
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| Preceded by | Member of Parliament forLinlithgowshire 1931 –1935 | Succeeded by |
| Preceded by | Member of Parliament forTonbridge 1937 –1945 | Succeeded by |
| Baronetage of the United Kingdom | ||
| Preceded by Gawaine Baillie | Baronet (of Polkemmet) 1914–1947 | Succeeded by |