Evening star., 1923-10-22
Lady Maud Macintosh to Wed
Capt. Evan Baillie, War Hero

engaged to the present Marquis of
Cambridge tformerly Duke Of Teck) J..
and the eldest brother OF Queen
Mary. broke off her engagement in
the Laird of Dochfour. The latter,
although untitled, comes from the
same stock as Lord Larnington, and
as the Baillies of Innishragie and of
Inndufferin. in Ireland
According TO: tradition. the three
sons Of Sir William Bailiie OF Lam
ington, in Lanarkshire, irritated be-
yond measure at the interference
with their love affairs on the part Of
the priest. who was acting as their
tutor, subjected him to such injuries
as to result in his death, and they
were forced.asin consequence, to fee
to remote parts OF Scotland. The
eldest of the brothers settled at Doch-
four in inverness. and It is from him
that the present Laird of Doch-
four and. in consequence. his son,
Capt. Evan Baillie, are descended in
direct and unbroken male line.
The lairds mother. the late Lady
Frances Baltic. was daughter of
that Earl of Elgin. to whom the Brit
tsh Museum owes the possession Of
the Elgin marbles, and she was, dur
ing the last six or eight years of his
life. the head OF the household of her
9EesheTinlaw S,baS Dean Oh Stanley Of
ticular favorite OF Queen Victoria,
whose lady-in-waiting she had been.
Among her brothers were Sir Fred
erick Bruce. who died at Washing
ton as British envoy to the United
ert Bruce, who was the governor and
mentor of King Edward during his
youth. accompanying him on his trip
20 America. Still another brother
was James Earl OF Elgfn. who, after
having. as he claimed. succeeded in
floating a treaty between the United
States and Great Britain through the
Senate at Washington, on a sea OF
champagne, died as governor general
OF india.
Young Capt. Baillie. the future Lord
Burton, is an active partner of the
Bass breweries. On leaving Eton, in
stead of going to the university he
went straight off to Edinburgh, to
study brewing in the breweries of Sir
George Younger, in order to secure a
better training and apprenticeship
than he could have obtained as one of
the owners at the Bass breweries at
Burton on-Trent. He was busily en-
gagged in learning all the intricacies S
of the industry and trade when the
great war broke out. which led him
to Immediately volunteer for active
service in France, although he was
barely twenty years of age at the
time.
Incidentally. 1t may be said that Sir
George Younger, who was for so
many years manager Of the conserva-
tive party machine, and, as such,
forced the resignation from premier
ship of Lloyd George last autumn by
withdrawing the conservative party
from the coalition. receiving his re-
ward in the. shape of q viscounty
from the present government. has re-
Gently been very Ill as the result of
terpsichorean excesses. Although
seyenty-five years Of age, he is, like
genarian and sepruagenarian peers,
an indefatigable dancer, and the other
day fell in q dead faint from over
exhaustion at the Stirling county ball.
being only revived with considerable
difficulty. s-..
This has served as a warning to
most of the other hereditary legisla-
tors of his age, with the result that
the tempo" of the dances will, from
henceforth, be much slower and less
fatiguing than in the past. Lloyd
George, who has always regarded
Lord Younger as one of his most re-
lentless adversaries, and as the chief
factor in ousting him from the pre-
miership last year, can hardly be ex-
pected TO be overwhelmed with grief
over the Illness of his peppery little
enemy, brought about, not by over
work in behalf of the state. OF the
conservative party. or of his brew
excesses. unsuitable to a man of his
vaorS