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A baillie (alternative spelling bailie, from Old French
Old French

Old French was the Romance languages dialect continuum spoken in territories which span roughly the northern half of modern France and parts of modern Belgium and Switzerland from around 1000 to 1300....
) was a local civic officer in Scottish
Scotland

conventional_long_name = ScotlandAlba|common_name= Scotland|image_flag = Flag of Scotland.svg|flag_width = 130px...
 burgh
Burgh

A Burgh is an Wiktionary:Autonomy corporate entity in Scotland, usually a town. This type of administrative division has existed since the 12th century, when David I of Scotland created the first Royal burghs....
s, approximately equivalent to the post of alderman
Alderman

An alderman is a member of a Municipal government assembly or council in many jurisdictions. Historically the term could also refer to local municipal judges in small legal proceedings ....
 or magistrate
Magistrate

A magistrate is a judicial officer; in ancient Rome, the word magistratus denoted one of the highest government officers with judicial and executive powers....
 (see bailiff
Bailiff

Bailiff is a governor or custodian ; a legal officer to whom some degree of authority, care or jurisdiction is committed. Bailiffs are of various kinds and their offices and duties vary greatly....
) in other countries. They were responsible for a jurisdiction
Jurisdiction

In law, jurisdiction is the practical authority granted to a formally constituted legal body or to a political leader to deal with and make pronouncements on legal matters and, by implication, to administer justice within a defined area of responsibility....
 called a bailiary (alt. bailiery).

Notable Scottish baillies:






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A baillie (alternative spelling bailie, from Old French
Old French

Old French was the Romance languages dialect continuum spoken in territories which span roughly the northern half of modern France and parts of modern Belgium and Switzerland from around 1000 to 1300....
) was a local civic officer in Scottish
Scotland

conventional_long_name = ScotlandAlba|common_name= Scotland|image_flag = Flag of Scotland.svg|flag_width = 130px...
 burgh
Burgh

A Burgh is an Wiktionary:Autonomy corporate entity in Scotland, usually a town. This type of administrative division has existed since the 12th century, when David I of Scotland created the first Royal burghs....
s, approximately equivalent to the post of alderman
Alderman

An alderman is a member of a Municipal government assembly or council in many jurisdictions. Historically the term could also refer to local municipal judges in small legal proceedings ....
 or magistrate
Magistrate

A magistrate is a judicial officer; in ancient Rome, the word magistratus denoted one of the highest government officers with judicial and executive powers....
 (see bailiff
Bailiff

Bailiff is a governor or custodian ; a legal officer to whom some degree of authority, care or jurisdiction is committed. Bailiffs are of various kinds and their offices and duties vary greatly....
) in other countries. They were responsible for a jurisdiction
Jurisdiction

In law, jurisdiction is the practical authority granted to a formally constituted legal body or to a political leader to deal with and make pronouncements on legal matters and, by implication, to administer justice within a defined area of responsibility....
 called a bailiary (alt. bailiery).

Notable Scottish baillies:
  • Alasdair MacMhaighstir Alasdair
    Alasdair MacMhaighstir Alasdair

    Alasdair mac Mhaighstir Alasdair was a military officer during the Jacobite Rising as well as a legendary - sometimes regarded as the premier - poet in the Scottish Gaelic language....
    , Bailie of Canna
    Canna, Scotland

    Canna is the westernmost of the Small Isles archipelago, in the Scotland Inner Hebrides. It is linked to the neighbouring island of Sanday, Inner Hebrides by a road and sandbanks at low tide....
  • Mary Barbour
    Mary Barbour

    Mary Barbour was a Scotland Activism, local councillor and magistrate who was closely associated with the Red Clydeside movement in the early 20th century....
    , Glasgow Corporation's first woman Baillie (1924-1927)
  • Alexander Comyn, Earl of Buchan
    Alexander Comyn, Earl of Buchan

    Alexander Comyn, Earl of Buchan was a Scoto-Norman magnate who was one of the most important figures in the 13th century Kingdom of Scotland. He was the son of William Comyn, jure uxoris Earl of Buchan, and Marjory, Countess of Buchan, the heiress of the last Gaels Mormaer of Buchan, Fergus, Earl of Buchan....
    , Bailie of Inverie
    Inverie

    Inverie is the only village in Knoydart, Lochaber, Scottish Highlands, Scotland. It is linked by ferry to Mallaig, but there is no road access to the area from the rest of Scotland....
    , Knoydart
    Knoydart

    Knoydart is a peninsula in Lochaber, Highland , on the west coast of Scotland....
  • Bailie Nicol Jarvie
    Bailie Nicol Jarvie

    Bailie Nicol Jarvie is a brand of whisky distilled and sold by Glenmorangie Single Malt in Scotland. It is named after a character in Walter Scott's novel Rob Roy....
    , fictional character in the Sir Walter Scott
    Walter Scott

    Sir Walter Scott, 1st Baronet, was a prolific Scotland historical novelist and poet popular throughout Europe during his time.In some ways Scott was the first English-language author to have a truly international career in his lifetime, with many contemporary readers all over Europe, Australia, and North America....
     novel Rob Roy, and a brand of whisky
  • Sir John Lauder, 1st Baronet
    Sir John Lauder, 1st Baronet

    Sir John Lauder, 1st Baronet, of Newington and Fountainhall, was a notable Scottish people baillie and Treasurer of the City of Edinburgh, who was raised to a Baronetage of Nova Scotia in 1688....
    , Bailie of Edinburgh
    Edinburgh

    Edinburgh ; is the Capital city of Scotland, a position it has held since 1437. It is the seventh largest city in the United Kingdom and the second largest Scottish City status in the United Kingdom after Glasgow....
  • Bailie William Landale, winner of the silver cup at the first open championship held at St Andrews Old Course in 1754, see Timeline of golf history (1353-1850)
    Timeline of golf history (1353-1850)

    The following is a partial timeline of the history of golf:*1354 - The first recorded reference to "chole", the probable antecedent of golf. It is a derivative of hockey played in Flanders....
  • Baillie Vass - a provincial newspaper, the Aberdeen Evening Express accidentally used a picture of Sir Alec Douglas-Home over a caption referring to a baillie called Vass. Private Eye
    Private eye

    A private eye is a nickname for a private investigator. It may also refer to:*Private Eye, a fortnightly British satirical magazine-newspaper, edited by Ian Hislop...
     then affected to believe that Home was an imposter.


There are several notable people with the surname Baillie:
  • Robert Baillie
    Robert Baillie

    Robert Baillie was Scotland divine and historical writer....
     (1602-1662), Scottish divine and historical writer
  • Lady Grizel Baillie, (1665–1746), Scottish song-writer
  • Baillie of Jerviswood
    Baillie of Jerviswood

    Robert Baillie was a Scottish conspirator implicated in the Rye House Plot against Charles II of England. He was executed for treason.Robert Baillie was the son of George Baillie of St John's Kirk, Lanarkshire, who had bought the estate of Jerviswood in 1636 and of Mellerstain House in 1643, under Charles I of England....
     (d. 1684), Scottish conspirator, Robert Baillie (aka Baillie of Jerviswood), son of George Baillie of Lanarkshire
  • Joanna Baillie
    Joanna Baillie

    Joanna Baillie was a Scottish people poet and dramatist. Baillie was very well-known during her lifetime and, though a woman, intended her plays not for the closet but for the stage....
     (1762-1851), poetess and dramatist
  • Matthew Baillie
    Matthew Baillie

    Matthew Baillie was a Scotland physician and pathologist.The brother of poetress Joanna Baillie, he was a pupil of his anatomist John Hunter, his uncle....
     (1761-1823), brother of Joanna Baillie
  • Henry Baillie
    Henry Baillie

    Henry James Baillie was a United Kingdom Conservative Party politician.Baillie was a friend of Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield, and in 1835 was actually called upon by Disraeli to serve as his second , when it appeared that Disraeli and Morgan O'Connell, the son of Daniel O'Connell, were going to fight a duel, which apparently...
     (1803–1885), British Conservative politician
  • Charles Baillie (disambiguation)
  • Sir Frank Wilton Baillie (1875–1921), Canadian industrialist
  • John Baillie
    John Baillie

    John Baillie Order of the Companions of Honour was a Scottish people theologian, a Church of Scotland Minister and brother of theologian Donald Macpherson Baillie....
     (1886-1960), Scottish theologian, and brother of theologian Donald Macpherson Baillie
  • Donald Macpherson Baillie
    Donald Macpherson Baillie

    Donald Macpherson Baillie was a Scottish theologian, ecumenicism, and parish Minister .Raised in the Calvinism, Baillie studied at University of Edinburgh and then in University of Marburg where he was influenced by the theologian Wilhelm Herrmann....
     (1887-1954), Scottish theologian, ecumenist, and parish minister
  • Bruce Baillie
    Bruce Baillie

    Bruce Baillie is an United States experimental filmmaker and founding member of Canyon Cinema in San Francisco. His film Castro Street was selected in 1992 for preservation in the United States National Film Registry....
     (1931-), film director
  • Jackie Baillie
    Jackie Baillie

    Jackie Baillie is a Scottish Labour Party Member of the Scottish Parliament for the Dumbarton constituency. Schooled in the England Lake District, she studied at Cumbernauld College, Strathclyde University and the University of Glasgow....
     (1964-), Labour Member of the Scottish Parliament for the Dumbarton constituency


See also

  • Deacon, the old Scots equivalent of councillor
    Councillor

    A councillor or councilor is a member of a local government council, such as a city council. Often in the United States, the title is councilman or councilwoman....
    , see Deacon#Scots usage
    Deacon

    Deacon is a role in the Christianity that is generally associated with service of some kind, but which varies among theological and denominational traditions....
  • Bailie of Holyroodhouse
  • Glasgow Bailie, a type of salted herring
    Herring

    Herring are small, oily fish of the genus Clupea found in the shallow, temperate waters of the North Pacific Ocean and the North Atlantic Ocean, including the Baltic Sea....
    , which is also some times known as a Glasgow Magistrate
  • The Scottish nobleman and prime minister Alec Douglas-Home
    Alec Douglas-Home

    Alexander Frederick Douglas-Home, Baron Home of the Hirsel, Order of the Thistle, Imperial Privy Council , 14th Earl of Home from 1951 to 1963, was a British Conservative Party politician, and served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom for a year from October 1963 to October 1964 ....
     was satirically named Baillie Vass by the magazine Private Eye
    Private eye

    A private eye is a nickname for a private investigator. It may also refer to:*Private Eye, a fortnightly British satirical magazine-newspaper, edited by Ian Hislop...
    .