Adrian Baillie

Sir Adrian William Maxwell Baillie, 6th Baronet DL (5 May 1898 – 8 January 1947) was a British MP for two constituencies. Early life 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. Upon the death of his elder brother, Sir Gawaine Baillie, 5th Baronet, in 1914 during World War I, he became the 6th Baronet while still at Eton. His maternal grandfather was David Elliot Wilkie and his paternal grandparents were Thomas Baillie and Elizabeth (née Ballingall) Baillie. His father's older brother, Sir George Baillie, 3rd Baronet (who died unmarried at an early age and was a Justice of the Peace for New South Wales and Victoria), had inherited the baronetcy from his childless uncle, Sir William Baillie, 2nd Baronet, a Conservative Member of Parliament for Linlithgowshire. The first baronet was Sir William Baillie (a son of William Baillie, Lord Polkemmet), who was created the Baillie baronet of Polkemmet in the County of Linlithgow in 1819. Among his extended family was aunts, Elizabeth (née Baillie) Cavendish (wife of William Edwin Cavendish, son of the 2nd Baron Chesham, and sister-in-law of both the 3rd Baron Chesham and 1st Duke of Westminster) and Mary (née Baillie) Price (wife of Thomas Caradoc Rose Price). Baillie was educated at Eton College and at Royal Military Academy Sandhurst.