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. where his family home was situated. Sir Adrian, reportedly "devoted himself to his constituents and to campaigning for improved conditions for agricultural workers." and Susan Winn (1923–2001) before their divorce in 1925. With her second husband, Arthur Wilson Filmer, whom she married in 1925, she bought Leeds Castle in Kent, which she retained after their divorce in 1931. Together, Adrian and Olive were the parents of one child before their marriage also ended in divorce in 1944:

Sir Gawaine Baillie, 7th Baronet (1934–2003), who married Lucille Margot Beaubien, the daughter of Senator Louis Beaubien of Montreal, in 1966.

He was a friend of the actor Douglas Fairbanks Sr., and was involved in a car accident in Fairbanks car while en route to Palm Springs, California from Los Angeles in 1939.

Sir Adrian died on 8 January 1947. He was buried at Whitburn South Parish Churchyard at Whitburn at West Lothian, Scotland.

Descendants Through his son Gawaine, he was the paternal grandfather of Liza Baillie (b. 1969) and Sir Adrian Baillie, 8th Baronet (b. 1973).