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 DEBRETT'S ILLUSTRATED PEERAGE. HADDINGTON, EARL OF. (BAILLIE-ARDEN-HAMILTON.) Virtue is greater than splendor. GEORGE BAILLIE - ARDEN - HAMILTON, llth Earl, in the peerage of Scotland, and a Representative Peer for Scotland. Born July 26th, 1827 ; succeeded his father June 1870 ; educated at Christ Church, Oxford ; appointed Vice Lieut, of Ber- wickshire, 1873 ; is a Magistrate and a Dep. -Lieut, of Haddingtonshire, a Magis- trate for Cheshire, of which county he was High Sheriff 1871, and Lieut.-Col. East Lothian Yeomanry Cavalry; as- sumed, in 1858, by royal license the additional surname and arms of Arden : I undertake and persevere. married (1854) Helen Catherine, 2nd daughter of Sir John "Warrender. 5th Bart, by the Hon. Frances Henrietta Arden, daughter of the late Lord Chief J ustice Baron Alvanley, and ha? issue, living, Sons, George, Lord Binning, b. 1856, Richard, b. 1858, Henry Robert, b. 1862. Daughters Ruth, b. 1855. Grisell, b. 1861. Cecely, b. 1863. Brothers living, Robert, b. 1828, m. 186l. Henry, b. 1832, m. 1872. Rev. Arthur Charles, b. 1838, m. 1866. Sisters living, Mary, b. 1825, m. 1855, (Douglas), Frances, b. 1829, Georgina Sophia, b. 1839, m. 1861, (Vernon). Creations, Baron of Binning, 1613 Earl of Haddington, 1619, both in the peerage of Scotland. rms, Quarterly : 1st and 4th grand quarters, quarterly, gules, on a chevron between three cinquefoils argent, a buckle azure, between two spots of ermine, all within a bordure or, charged with eight thistles vert, Hamilton of Byers ; 2nd and 3rd, argent, a fesse wavy between three roses gules, barbed and seeded proper, Melross; 2nd and 3rd, grand quarters sable, the sun in his glory betwixt nine stars, three, two, three, and one, argent. (Crrsts, 1st, two dexter hands issuing out of clouds conjoined fessewise, and holding betwixt them a branch of laurel erect, all proper, Hamilton; 2nd; a crescent or. Supporters Two dogs argent, plain collared gules. Seats, Tyninghame-house, Preston Kirk, Haddingtonshire ; Lennel-house, Cold- stream, Berwickshire ; Mellerstein, Roxburghshire ; Jerviswoode, Lanarkshire $ Arderne- hall, Tarporley, Cheshire. Club, Carlton. HADDINGTON, Earl of, His lordship's predecessor was his father, George, 10th Earl, and a Representative Peer of Scotland. He was b. April 14, 1802 ; educated at Harrow, and at Christ Church, Oxford; was a Lord in Waiting to the Queen 1S6/ 8, Lord High Commissioner of Scotland, a Dep. -Lieut, of Haddingtonshire, and Lieut. -Command- ant of the East Lothian Yeomanry Cavalry ; succeeded his cousin 1858 ; assumed in 1859 the additional and original surname of Hamilton to that of Baillie ; m. 1824, Georgiana, daughter of Ven. and Rev. Robert Markham, Archdeacon of York ; he d. June, 1870, leaving issue five sons and three daughters. Her ladyship d. 18/3. Haddo, Baron, title borne by the Earl of Aberdeen. Haldane (Duncan-Haldane), family name of the Earl of Camperdown.