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Old Photograph Lamington House Scotland
Old photograph of Lamington House in South Lanarkshire, Scotland. Charles Wallace Alexander Napier Cochrane Baillie, 2nd Baron Lamington, born 29 July 1860, died 16 September 1940, was a British politician and colonial administrator who was Governor of Queensland, Australia, from 1896 to 1901, and Governor of Bombay, India, from 1903 to 1907. He was born in London, England, and was the only son of Alexander Baillie-Cochrane, the 1st Baron Lamington. Charles was educated at Eton College and Christ Church, Oxford where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 1883. In 1885, he became assistant private secretary to the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Lord Salisbury. Upon the death of his father in 1890, he succeeded as the 2nd Baron Lamington. On 13 June 1895, he married Mary Houghton Hozier at St Michael's Church, Pimlico; they had two children, a son and a daughter. He was appointed captain of the Lanarkshire Yeomanry on 26 March 1902. In 1919, he served as commissioner of the British Relief Unit in Syria, prior to its allocation as a French mandate. He returned to his family home, Lamington House, in Lanarkshire, Scotland, where he died on 16 September 1940, aged 80.
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