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:
He married secondly on 28 April 1898 Lady Augusta Helen Elizabeth Boyle, daughter of David Boyle, 7th Earl of Glasgow. After her husband′s death, Lady Augusta re-married in 1914 Thomas Walker Hobart Inskip, a Conservative politician who was in 1939 created Viscount Caldecote. They had three children: