Charles Lindsay Orr-Ewing
Charles Lindsay Orr-Ewing was a Scottish Tory politician.
The youngest son of Sir Archibald Orr-Ewing and Elizabeth Lindsay Reid; he was educated at Harrow School. After travel in the East, he was commissioned as a captain in the 3rd Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders. He was Member of Parliament for Ayr Burghs from 1895, until he died of heart failure in 1903 aged 43.
Orr-Ewing married first in 1888 Hon. Beatrice Mary Leslie Hore-Ruthven, daughter of Walter Hore-Ruthven, 9th Lord Ruthven of Freeland. They were divorced in 1894, and she later re-married Major Charles Malcolm. There were two children:
- Janet Beatrix Orr-Ewing, who married in 1909 Captain George Culme-Seymour.
- Sir Ian Leslie Orr-Ewing.
- Lieutenant Edward Lindsay Orr-Ewing, MC.
- Captain David Orr-Ewing, DSO, Royal Navy officer.
- Barbara Dorothea Orr-Ewing, who married in 1931 Lieut.-Commander William Edmund Halsey, and left children.