Sir Adrian William Maxwell Baillie, 6th Baronet DL (5 May 1898 – 8 January 1947)[1] was a British MP for two constituencies.
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.
[4] 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).
[6] While back in the United Kingdom on leave during the summer of 1928, Sir Adrian agreed to contest the parliamentary constituency of Linlithgowshire at the request of Victor Hope, 2nd Marquess of Linlithgow.
He was defeated by Labour politician Manny Shinwell in 1929, but ran again in 1931 where he was elected as Unionist Party MP for Linlithgowshire,[7] where his family home was situated.