Hugh Duncan Baillie

Son of Evan Baillie merchant, of Bristol and Dochfour, Inverness, and Mary Gurley (daughter of Peter Gurley of St Vincent). 'Colonel Hugh Duncan Baillie of Red Castle and Tarradale'.

His father was a prosperous West India merchant in Bristol.

In 1812 with his brother, James Evan Baillie (q.v.), he took over the management of the family firm, Bristol Old Bank.

Was a military officer 1793-1825 as well as partner in the bank.

As Grand Master he was the recipient of 'A letter addressed to Colonel Hugh Duncan Baillie MP, Grand Master, and the Grand Wardens of the province of Bristol: in consequence of some foul and vulgar remarks in The Tablet newspaper of 21st June' by a past Master [Bristol, 1845?].   

MP for Rye 1830-1831 and Honiton 1835-1847.

Hugh Duncan Baillie's son, Colonel Henry James Baillie (1803-1885), was Conservative MP for Inverness-shire (1840-1868). A protectionist in the 1840s, friend of Benjamin Disraeli and associate of Young England in the early 1840s, he was later Under-Secretary of State for India (1858-1859) in Lord Derby’s Conservative government.

T71/885 British Guiana claim no. 629 (Peter Hall); T71/887 British Guiana claim no. 2289 (Hampton Court); T71/879 St Kitts claim nos. 48 (Mornes) and 576; T71/894 Trinidad claim nos. 1416 (Washington & Wilderness) and 1641 (Camden); T71/880 Grenada claim nos. 312, 591 (Revolution Hall), 690 (Levera) and 701 (Hermitage); T71/892 St Vincent claim nos. 491 (Caubaimarow[sp?]), 506 (Harmony Hall), 507A (Golden Vale), 538, 548 (Cane Hall), 553 (Liberty Lodge), 661 (Convent) and 642 (Peters Hope).

D. R. Fisher (ed.), The House of Commons 1820-1832 (7 vols., Cambridge, Cambridge University Press for the History of Parliament Trust, 2009), vol. 4.

Details of children are taken from www.peerage.com [accessed 13/09/2010] and appear to omit for example Mary Elixa [sic] who died at Leigh near Bristol on August 18 1814 [The European Magazine and London Review 1814 Monthly obituary p. 275].

We are grateful to Ruth Hecht for her assistance with compiling this entry.