Editing Lady Grizel Baillie (section)

== Biography ==
[[File:Grizell Baillie's lantern, National Museum of Scotland.jpg|thumb|left|120px|The lantern teenaged Hume used when visiting her father in hiding, [[National Museum of Scotland|Museum of Scotland]]]]
Born at [[Redbraes Castle]], [[Berwickshire]], Grizel Hume was the eldest daughter of Grisell Ker and [[Patrick Hume, 1st Earl of Marchmont|Sir Patrick Hume]] (later [[Earl of Marchmont]]).<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite book|title=The songstresses of Scotland|last=Tytler|first=Sarah|last2=Watson|first2=J.L.|publisher=Strahan & Co.|year=1871|volume=1|location=London|url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nyp.33433067282479&view=1up&seq=27&skin=2021|hdl = 2027/nyp.33433067282479|oclc=991471905}}</ref> When she was twelve years old, she carried letters from her father to a Scottish conspirator in the [[Rye House Plot]], [[Baillie of Jerviswood|Robert Baillie of Jerviswood]], who was then in prison. Hume's sympathy for Baillie made him a suspected man and the [[James II of England|king]]'s troops occupied Redbraes Castle. He remained in hiding for some time in the crypt of [[Polwarth Church]], where his daughter smuggled food to him; but on hearing of the execution of Baillie (1684), he fled to the [[Dutch Republic|United Provinces]], where his family joined him soon after. They returned to Scotland after the [[Glorious Revolution in Scotland|Glorious Revolution]].<ref name="eb1911">{{EB1911|inline=1|wstitle=Baillie, Lady Grizel|volume=3|page=219}}</ref>

In 1692, Lady Grizel married [[George Baillie (MP, born 1664)|George Baillie]], son of Robert.<ref name="eb1911"/> The couple had first met when they were twelve and supposedly, fell in love at that point. What is known for certain is that after returning to Scotland, Lady Grizel turned down the offer to be one of [[Mary II of England|Queen Mary]]'s [[Maid of honour|maids of honour]],<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|title=The new biographical dictionary of Scottish women|publisher=Edinburgh University Press|year=2017|isbn=9781474436298|editor-last=Ewan|editor-first=Elizabeth|location=Edinburgh|pages=23|oclc=1057237368}}</ref> and insisted to her parents on marrying Baillie over a more advantageous match. The couple had two daughters: [[Grizel Baillie, Lady Murray|Grizel]] (1692–1759), who married British Army officer Sir Alexander Murray of [[Stanhope, Peeblesshire|Stanhope]] in 1710; and Rachel (1696–1773), who married [[Charles Hamilton, Lord Binning|Charles Lord Binning]] in 1717 (and whose son Thomas became the [[Thomas Hamilton, 7th Earl of Haddington|seventh Earl of Haddington]]).<ref name="eb1911"/> They also had a short-lived son, Robert ({{daterangedash|23 February 1694|28 February 1696|dmy}}).

She died in London on 6 December 1746, and was buried at [[Mellerstain]] on 25 December, her eighty-first birthday.<ref>{{cite DNB |wstitle=Baillie, Grizel |first=Alexander Balloch |last=Grosart |volume=2 |pages=413–14}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |url=https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/14416 |title=Stories of the Border Marches |last=Lang |first=Jean |last2=Lang |first2=John |publisher=T. C. & E. C. Jack Ltd |year=1916 |pages=64}}</ref>