{{Short description|British politician}} {{for|similar names|Henry Bailey (disambiguation){{!}}Henry Bailey}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2016}} {{Use British English|date=August 2016}} {{Infobox officeholder | honorific_prefix = Colonel The Right Honourable | name = Henry Baillie | honorific_suffix = | image = 200px | image_size = | caption = | order1 = Under-Secretary of State for India | term_start1 = 30 September 1858 | term_end1 = 11 June 1859 | monarch1 = Victoria | prime_minister1 = The Earl of Derby | predecessor1 = New office | successor1 = Thomas Baring | birth_date = 1803 | birth_place = | death_date = 16 December 1885 | death_place = | party = Conservative | alma_mater = | spouse = (1) Hon. Philippa Eliza Sydney Smythe (d. 1854) <br />(2) Clarissa Rush }}
Colonel '''Henry James Baillie''' PC (1803 – 16 December 1885), was a British Conservative politician. He served under Lord Derby as Under-Secretary of State for India from 1858 to 1859.
==Background== Baillie was the son of Colonel Hugh Duncan Baillie, son of Evan Baillie, by his first wife Elizabeth, daughter of Reverend Henry Reynett. Peter Baillie and James Evan Baillie were his uncles.<ref name="blg">''Burke's Landed Gentry 1886'', page 71</ref> He was educated at Eton College.<ref>{{cite book|title=Appendix to the Eton School Lists: Comprising the Years 1853-6-9|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=l5BPAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA100|year=1864|publisher=E.P. Williams|pages=100–}}</ref>
==Political career== Baillie was a friend of Benjamin Disraeli, and in 1835 was actually called upon by Disraeli to serve as his second (after d'Orsay declined), when it appeared that Disraeli and Morgan O'Connell, the son of Daniel O'Connell, were going to fight a duel, which apparently did not actually occur.<ref>{{Blake: Disraeli}}</ref> In 1840 Baillie was elected Member of Parliament for Inverness-shire, and retained that seat until 1868.<ref>{{Rayment-hc|i|1|date=March 2012}}</ref> In the early 1840s he was associated with the "Young England" movement, of which Disraeli was the head. Another member of that group, George Smythe, was Baillie's brother-in-law. He apparently broke with Sir Robert Peel over the Corn Laws and accepted minor office in Lord Derby's 1852 government as Joint Secretary to the Board of Control. He again held office under Derby as Under-Secretary of State for India from 1858 to 1859. In 1866 he was sworn of the Privy Council.<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=23149 |date=10 August 1866 |page=4451 }}</ref>
==Family== [[File:Grave of Hugh Duncan Baillie in the Lebanon Circle in Highgate Cemetery.jpg|thumb|left|Grave of Henry James Baillie in the Baillie family vault in the Lebanon Circle in Highgate Cemetery]] Baillie married firstly the Honourable Philippa Eliza Sydney Smythe, daughter of Percy Smythe, 6th Viscount Strangford, in 1840. They had several children. After Philippa's death in June 1854 he married secondly Clarissa Rush, daughter of George Rush, in 1857. Baillie died at the age of 82 and was buried in the Baillie family vault in the Lebanon Circle on the west side of Highgate Cemetery.<ref name="blg"/>
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== External links == * {{Hansard-contribs | mr-henry-baillie | Henry Baillie }}
{{s-start}} {{s-par|uk}} {{succession box | title=Member of Parliament for Inverness-shire | before=Francis William Grant | after=Donald Cameron | years=1840–1868}} {{s-off|uk}} {{succession box | title=Joint Secretary of the Board of Control | with = Charles Cumming-Bruce | before=James Wilson<br />John Elliot | after=Robert Lowe<br />Thomas Nicholas Redington | years=1852}} {{s-new|office}} {{s-ttl|title=Under-Secretary of State for India |years=1858–1859}} {{s-aft|after=Thomas Baring}} {{s-end}}
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