Captain Cochrane-Baillie MC Scots Guards 1896-1951

Grandfather of Victor

Father of Victor

Victor Alexander Brisbane William Cochrane-Baillie, 3rd Baron Lamington was born on 23 July 1896 in Queensland, Australia while his father was Governor. He was the son of Charles Wallace Alexander Napier Cochrane-Baillie, 2nd Baron Lamington and the Hon. Mary Haughton Hozier. His god-mother was Queen Victoria who had given him the names Victor Alexander, so naming him after he rin the male version of Victoria. He married Riette Neilson, daughter of D. A. Neilson, on 8 June 1922. He died on 20 September 1951 at age 55. He was educated at Eton College,and at Christ Church, Oxford University. He gained the rank of Captain in the service of the Scots Guards. He fought in the Great War between 1915 and 1918, where he was wounded twice and mentioned in despatches. He was decorated with the award of the Military Cross (M.C.). He succeeded to the title of 3rd Baron Lamington, of Lamington, Co. Lanark [U.K., 1880] on 16 September 1940. On his death, his title became extinct. The Cochrane-Baillie family of Lamington was a younger branch of the earls of Dundonald. Alexander Cochrane-Baillie, 1st Baron Lamington (1816-1890, was the son of Admiral Sir Thomas John Cochrane (1789-1872, see DNB) and grandson of Admiral Sir Alexander Forrester Inglis Cochrane (1758-1832). The latter was a younger son of Thomas Cochrane, 8th Earl of Dundonald.The first Lord Lamington inherited Lamington in Lanarkshire through his mother, a descendant of the Baillies of Lamington, and took the addition to his surname in consequence (at first as Baillie-Cochrane, later as Cochrane-Baillie). He was a politician and author, whose published works included poetry, fiction and journalism. In politics he was a follower of Disraeli and served as Conservative MP for Bridport, 1841-1852, Lanarkshire, 1857, Honiton, 1859-1868, and the Isle of Wight, 1870-1880. In 1880 he was raised to the peerage.On his death in 1890 he was succeeded by his son Charles Cochrane-Baillie, 2nd Baron Lamington (1860-1940, see DNB), who was Conservative MP for North St Pancras, 1886-1890, Governor of Queensland, 1895-1901, and Governor of Bombay, 1903-1907. His wife, Mary Haughton Hozier (d 1944), was the daughter of the 1st Baron Newlands.Captain Victor Cochrane-Baillie, 3rd Baron Lamington (1896-1951), pursued a career in the Scots Guards.