Hugh Duncan Baillie
Hugh Duncan Baillie (31 May 1777 – 21 June 1866) was a British army officer, MP and Lord Lieutenant of Ross-shire.
Early life
He was the second son of Evan Baillie of Dochfour, a prosperous Bristol merchant, and his wife Mary, daughter of Peter Gurley of St Vincent. His brothers were Peter Baillie and James Evan Baillie. Hugh succeeded his father in 1835.
Personal life
He had married twice: firstly, at the Cape of Good Hope, Elizabeth, the daughter of Rev. Henry Reynett of Goodmans Fields, London (whose grandfather was a Huguenot who had moved from France to Ireland),[1] with whom he had a son and 3 daughters and secondly Mary, the daughter of Thomas Smith of Castleton Hall, Lancashire, with whom he had 3 sons and a daughter. He bought the Ross-shire estate of Redcastle from the Trustees of Sir William Fettes after the latter's death in 1836.
Career
He joined the Army as an ensign in the
In 1812 he and his brother James became partners in the Bristol Old Bank. Hugh had become senior partner by his death.
He entered Parliament as the
Death
He died in 1866. His personal estate after his death was valued at under £50,000. He is buried in a family vault on the inner ring of the Lebanon Circle at Highgate Cemetery (West). His son Duncan Baillie was also a British Army officer and rose to the rank of lieutenant-general.[3]
References
- ^ The Ancestry of General Sir James Henry Reynett. H. F. Morris. Journal of the Old Waterford Society. Autumn 1993.
- ^ "Summary of Individual | Legacies of British Slavery". www.ucl.ac.uk.
- ^ Eton College Register 1841–1850. Eton: Spottiswoode & Co. 1903. p. 27.
- "BAILLIE, Hugh Duncan (1777-1866), of 34 Mortimer Street, Cavendish Square, Mdx.; Park Row, Bristol, Glos., and Tarradale, Ross". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 7 September 2013.
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