[1] For some time Baillie-Hamilton worked for the Conservative party and was a private secretary to Stanley Baldwin.
In the 1924 general election he was the Conservative candidate for Peebles and South Midlothian which was won by Labour.
[3] In 1929 he won the constituency of Bath in a by-election and held the seat with an increased majority in the general election which followed shortly afterwards.
[4] For the election of 1931, the Bath Conservatives rejected him as their candidate and forced him to stand down over his poor voting record and few visits to the constituency.
[8] Baillie-Hamilton died in April 1939 at the age of 38 and was buried in Tynighame, East Lothian, Scotland.