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Archibald Orr-Ewing

Sir
Archibald Orr-Ewing
1st Baronet
Member of Parliament
for Dunbartonshire
In office
1868 (1868)–1892 (1892)
Personal details
Born(1818-01-04)4 January 1818
Died28 November 1893(1893-11-28) (aged 46)
CitizenshipUnited Kingdom
NationalityScottish
Political partyConservative
SpouseElizabeth Lindsay Reid
Children6[1]
Occupationpolitician

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.[2] 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[3]

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.[1]

On 27 April 1847, he married Elizabeth Lindsay Reid and they had four children:

In 1864 Sir Archibald commissioned David Bryce to design his new home, Ballikinrain Castle, which was completed in 1868.

Coat of arms of Archibald Orr-Ewing
Crest
A demi-lion rampant gules holding in its dexter paw a mullet as in the arms.
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.
Motto
Audaciter (Boldly)[5]

References

  1. ^ a b c "Sir Archibald Orr Ewing of Ballikinrain, 1st Bt". British and European Nobility Register. Retrieved 27 January 2025.
  2. ^ "No. 25564". The London Gazette. 2 March 1886. p. 1027.
  3. ^ Craig, F. W. S. (1989) [1977]. British parliamentary election results 1832–1885 (2nd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. p. 582. ISBN 0-900178-26-4.
  4. ^ Arthur Fox-Davies, Armorial Families: A Directory of Gentlemen of Coat-Armour, 6th ed. (Edinburgh, 1910), p. 226.
  5. ^ Debrett's peerage & baronetage 2003. London: Macmillan. 2003. p. 363.
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Member of Parliament for Dunbartonshire
1868 – 1892 		Succeeded by
Baronetage of the United Kingdom
New creation Baronet
(of Ballikinrain)
1886 – 1893 		Succeeded by


Quelle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archibald_Orr-Ewing