George Baillie-Hamilton, 12th Earl of Haddington

Who was George Baillie-Hamilton, 12th Earl of Haddington?

George Baillie-Hamilton, 12th Earl of Haddington MC, TD, was a Scottish Peer from 1917 to 1986.

Haddington was the son of Brigadier-General George Baillie-Hamilton, Lord Binning. Educated at Eton and Sandhurst, he was awarded the Military Cross during the First World War. He succeeded his grandfather in the earldom in 1917. In the Second World War he was a Wing Commander in the RAFVR. He was Lord Lieutenant of Berwickshire from 1952 to 1969. In 1957 he became the first president of the Georgian Group of Edinburgh, later the Architectural Heritage Society of Scotland. He lived at Tyninghame House in East Lothian, where he and his wife created and replanted several formal gardens.

His daughter, Lady Mary, was one of Queen Elizabeth II’s Maids of Honour at the 1953 Coronation.