Archibald Orr-Ewing
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Sir Archibald Orr-Ewing, 1st Baronet (4 January 1818 – 28 November 1893) was a Scottish Conservative Party politician.
The Orr Ewing Baronetcy, of Ballikinrain in the County of Stirling and of Lennoxbank in the County of Dunbarton, was created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 8 March 1886 for the Conservative politician Archibald Orr-Ewing.{{London Gazette |issue=25564 |date=2 March 1886 |page=1027}} He was the seventh son of William Ewing, a merchant of Glasgow, and Susan, daughter of John Orr, Provost of Paisley.
Archibald was Member of Parliament (MP) for Dunbartonshire from 1868 to 1892{{cite book
|last=Craig
|first=F. W. S.
|authorlink= F. W. S. Craig
|title=British parliamentary election results 1832–1885
|orig-year=1977
|edition= 2nd
|year=1989
|publisher= Parliamentary Research Services
|location=Chichester
|isbn= 0-900178-26-4
|page=582
}}
Sir Archibald was a deputy lieutenant (D.L.) of Dunbartonshire and for Stirlingshire. He was a justice of the peace (J.P.) for Inverness-shire and for Stirlingshire. He was the Ensign-General of the Royal Company of Archers and Dean of Faculties at the University of Glasgow.
On 27 April 1847, he married Elizabeth Lindsay Reid and they had four children:
- Sir William Orr-Ewing, 2nd Bt. (1848–1903)
- Sir Archibald Ernest Orr-Ewing, 3rd Bt. (1853–1919)
- James Alexander Orr Ewing (1857-1900)
- Janet Edith Orr-Ewing (1858-1935), mother of the Labour politician Lucy Noel-Buxton Arthur Fox-Davies, Armorial Families: A Directory of Gentlemen of Coat-Armour, 6th ed. (Edinburgh, 1910), p. 226.
- John Orr Ewing (1859-1916), father of the pathologist Jean Orr-Ewing
- Charles Lindsay Orr-Ewing (1860–1903)
In 1864 Sir Archibald commissioned David Bryce to design his new home, Ballikinrain Castle, which was completed in 1868.
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|escutcheon = Argent, a chevron gules, issuant therefrom a banner of the second thereon in the first quarter the arms of St Andrew viz, azure a saltire argent; between in chief two mullets gules and in base the sun in its splendour, the whole within a bordure indented gules charged with three martlets argent, two in chief and one in base.
|crest = A demi-lion rampant gules holding in its dexter paw a mullet as in the arms.
|motto = Audaciter (Boldly){{cite book |title=Debrett's peerage & baronetage 2003 |date=2003 |publisher=Macmillan |location=London |pages=363 |url=https://archive.org/details/debrettspeerageb0000unse_r0m8/page/360/mode/2up?q=orr&view=theater}}
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References
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- {{rayment-hc|date=March 2012}}
- {{Rayment|date=February 2012}}
External links
- {{Hansard-contribs | mr-archibald-orr-ewing | Sir Archibald Orr-Ewing }}
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| title = Member of Parliament for Dunbartonshire
| before = Patrick Smollett
| after = John Sinclair
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| years = 1886 – 1893
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{{s-aft | after = William Orr-Ewing }}
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Category:Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Scottish constituencies
Category:Scottish Tory MPs (pre-1912)
Category:Members of the Royal Company of Archers
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