George William Fox Kinnaird, 9th Lord Kinnaird Knight of the Order ot the Thistle, Personal Computer, was a Scottish Whig politician.
Background
Knnaird was the eldest son of Charles Kinnaird, 8th Lord Kinnaird, by Lady Olivia Laetitia Catherine Fitzgerald third daughter of William Fitzgerald, 2nd Duke of Leinster. Kinnaird succeeded his father in the lordship of Kinnaird in 1826.
Career
He served as Master of the Buckhounds under Lord Melbourne from 1839 to 1841. This was a Scottish peerage and did not entitle him to an automatic seat in the House of Lords. However, in 1831 he was created Baron Rossie, of Rossie Priory in the County of Perth, in the Peerage of the United Kingdom, which gave him a seat in the upper chamber of Parliament.
In December 1839 he was appointed Master of the Buckhounds under Lord Melbourne, a post he held until the government fell in 1841.
He was sworn of the Privy Council in early 1840. In 1857 he was made a Knight of the Thistle.
Three years later he was created Baron Kinnaird, of Rossie in the County of Perth, also in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. Kinnaird later served as Lord Lieutenant of Perthshire from 1866 to 1878.
Lord Kinnaird married the Honourable Frances Anne Georgina Ponsonby, only daughter of William Ponsonby, 1st Baron de Mauley, at Great Canford, Dorset, on 14 December 1837.
They had three children:
Honorary Olivia Barbara Kinnaird (died 1871). Victor Alexander Kinnaird, Master of Kinnaird (1840–1851).
Charles Fox Kinnaird, Master of Kinnaird (1841–1860).
Lord Kinnaird died in January 1878, aged 70, without surviving male issue. Lady Kinnaird died in March 1910, aged 92.