About Robert Baikie
Lived 1800 – 1817. Robert Baikie was a politician.
Robert Baikie (died 1817) was a Scottish politician from Tankerness and Egilshay in Orkney.
Baikie was the oldest son of James Baikie of Tankerness and his wife Janet, a daughter of William Douglas, and heiress of the Monteiths of Egilshay through her grandfather Alexander. His father was provost of Kirkwall during the Jacobite rising of 1745, and was paid a pension by the Earls of Morton for his support of their electoral interests.
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Scottish politician
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Robert Baikie was born in 1800.
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Robert Baikie died on 4 April 1817.
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Robert Baikie was a politician.
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