George Baillie-Hamilton, 10th Earl of Haddington

George Baillie-Hamilton, 10th Earl of Haddington DL (14 April 1802 – 25 June 1870), known as George Baillie until 1858, was a Scottish Conservative politician.

Life

Haddington was the son of George Baillie and his wife Mary (née Pringle). Charles Baillie, Lord Jerviswoode, was his younger brother.

He succeeded his second cousin Thomas Hamilton, 9th Earl of Haddington in the earldom in 1858, and in 1859 he assumed by Royal licence the additional surname of Hamilton.

The latter year he was also elected a Scottish Representative Peer and took his seat on the Conservative benches in the House of Lords. He served under the Earl of Derby and Benjamin Disraeli as a Lord-in-waiting (government whip in the House of Lords) from 1867 to 1868. Between 1867 and 1868 he was also Lord High Commissioner to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland.

Lord Haddington died at Tyninghame House on 25 June 1870, aged 68.

Marriage and Issue

Lord Haddington married Georgina Markham (d. 26 February 1873), daughter of the Venerable Robert Markham, Archdeacon of York, on 16 December 1824 and had issue:

George Baillie-Hamilton-Arden, 11th Earl of Haddington
Hon Robert Baillie-Hamilton (1828-1891) MP for Berwickshire
Hon. Clifton Baillie-Hamilton (1831-1857)
Cdr. the Hon. Henry Baillie-Hamilton
Hon. Percy Baillie-Hamilton died in infancy
Rev the Hon. Arthur Baillie-Hamilton, vicar of Badley
Lady Mary Baillie-Hamilton
Lady Frances Baillie-Hamilton
Lady Georgina Baillie-Hamilton

Notes

gollark: Okay, even if you don't need ATM-stolen levels of security, it still needs to be ridiculously secure.

gollark: Also, can you not, say, invisibly read from an RFID card someone had and take all their money?

gollark: That answer to 4.

gollark: Sorry. What?!

gollark: I can see a few problems:1. how are you planning to make secure bank cards?2. how will people trust the system?3. how is it actually more convenient than holding [CURRENCY] in your inventory?4. you will need it to be really secure - so secure that even if an ATM is stolen it won't be possible to meddle with the backend.

References

Anderson, J., Historical and Genealogical Memoirs of the House of Hamilton; with genealogical memoirs of the several branches of the family, Edinburgh, 1825.
Balfour Paul, Sir J., Scots Peerage IX vols. Edinburgh, 1904.
Kidd, Charles & Williamson, David (editors). Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990,
Leigh Rayment's Peerage Pages
Lundy, Darryl. "FAQ". The Peerage.

Peerage of Scotland
Preceded by Thomas Hamilton	Earl of Haddington 1858–1870	Succeeded by George Baillie-Hamilton-Arden

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