George Kinnaird, 9th Lord Kinnaird

Kinnaird was the eldest son of Charles Kinnaird, 8th Lord Kinnaird, by Lady Olivia Laetitia Catherine FitzGerald third daughter of William FitzGerald, 2nd Duke of Leinster.

Kinnaird succeeded his father in the lordship of Kinnaird in 1826. This was a Scottish peerage and did not entitle him to an automatic seat in the House of Lords. However, in 1831 he was created Baron Rossie, of Rossie Priory in the County of Perth, in the Peerage of the United Kingdom, which gave him a seat in the upper chamber of Parliament.{{London Gazette |issue=18814 |date=17 June 1831 |page=1193 }} In December 1839 he was appointed Master of the Buckhounds under Lord Melbourne,{{London Gazette |issue=19806 |date=24 December 1839 |page=2677 }} a post he held until the government fell in 1841.{{London Gazette |issue=20017 |date=10 September 1841 |page=2273 }} He was sworn of the Privy Council in early 1840.{{London Gazette |issue=19815 |date=17 January 1840 |page=106 }} In 1857 he was made a Knight of the Thistle.{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20080607022445/http://www.leighrayment.com/orders/thistle.htm leighrayment.com Knights of the Thistle]}} Three years later he was created Baron Kinnaird, of Rossie in the County of Perth, also in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. In contrast to the earlier barony, which was created with normal remainder to heirs male, this barony was created with special remainder to his younger brother, Arthur.{{London Gazette |issue=22416 |date=24 August 1860 |page=3121 }} Kinnaird later served as Lord Lieutenant of Perthshire from 1866 to 1878.{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20080608023926/http://www.leighrayment.com/peers/peersK2.htm leighrayment.com Peerage: Kilmaule to Kynnaird]}}

Lord Kinnaird married the Honourable Frances Anne Georgina Ponsonby, only daughter of William Ponsonby, 1st Baron de Mauley, at Great Canford, Dorset, on 14 December 1837. They had three children:

• Hon. Olivia Barbara Kinnaird (died 1871).
• Victor Alexander Kinnaird, Master of Kinnaird (1840–1851).
• Charles Fox Kinnaird, Master of Kinnaird (1841–1860).

Lord Kinnaird died in January 1878, aged 70, without surviving male issue. The barony of Rossie became extinct on his death while he was succeeded in the Scottish lordship and barony of Kinnaird by his younger brother, Arthur. Lady Kinnaird died in March 1910, aged 92.

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