1822 Memoirs; Right Honourable George Baillie & Lady Grisell : Scotland Politics

Memoirs of the lives and characters of the Right Honourable George Baillie of Jerviswood, and of Lady Grisell Baillie

By Lady Murray Of Stanhope

Printed at Edinburgh, 1822. Privately published. Full leather binding with gilt tooling to both boards and spine, 8vo, gilt to all page edges, bookplate of Sir John P. Boileau, Bart pasted to the inside front board, pp xiv, 170.

Sir John Peter Boileau, 1st Baronet (2 September 1794 – 9 March 1869) was a British baronet and archaeologist.

George Baillie (16 March 1664 – 6 August 1738) was a Scottish politician who sat in the Parliament of Scotland from 1691 to 1707 and in the British House of Commons from 1708 to 1734.

George Baillie was the son of the Scottish Covenanter Robert Baillie of Jerviswood, who was implicated in the 1683 Rye House Plot against King Charles II. When his father was imprisoned for treason in 1684, George fled Scotland for Holland with Sir Patrick Hume. In Holland he served in the horse guards of William of Orange, and returned to Britain with William in the Revolution of 1688.

CONDITION
A very good copy in a handsome leather binding. The binding is in good condition. Endpapers are good. All contents present and pages good throughout. Overall a very good copy.

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