Brigadier-General Arthur Edward Dalzell, 13th Earl of Carnwath, CB (25 December 1851 – 9 March 1941) was a

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officer and a Representative Peer of

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Family

Dalzell was born into an old Scottish family. He was the fourth of five children born to

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Robert Alexander George Dalzell (1816–1878) and Sarah Bushby Harris (1821–1916). His father was the fourth son of Robert Alexander Dalzell, 6th Earl of Carnwath, and his mother the daughter of John and Amelia Harris of Eldon House,

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. His elder brother

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succeeded an uncle as Earl of Carnwath in 1887, when Arthur and his sisters were raised to the rank of children of an Earl by Royal Warrant of Precedence. Dalzell married at St Peter's Church, Eaton Square, on 4 December 1902 Muriel Wyndham Knatchbull, daughter of Colonel Norton Knatchbull. They had two children: *Muriel Marjorie Dalzell (22 September 1903 – 18 February 1995), married in 1927 Major John Norton Taylor. *Arthur Robert Dalzell (11 March 1907 – 28 February 1909).

Military career

Receiving his education at East Sheen and Cheltenham, he joined the 12th or Suffolk Regiment as an

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in 1870. The following year he transferred to the

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and was commissioned a

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on 1 November 1871. He had become a supernumerary captain by March 1882, and made full captain on 7 October 1885. While he served with his regiment in

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he first saw active service in

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between 1891 and 1892. By now a Major, he was appointed as Inspector of Gymnasia in

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and

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he returned to his regular duties in 1896. Further promotions followed and he served in the

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, seeing action at

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and other campaigns during the conflict. He was made a Companion of the

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(CB) on 29 November 1900 for his services there. His sister Lady Maud Rolleston writes about their time in South Africa during the 2nd Boer War in her book "Yeoman service : being the diary of the wife of an imperial yeomanry office during the Boer War". Amongst various adventures of her own, she set up a convalescent home for soldiers in Kimberley and helped nurse her badly injured husband Col Lancelot Rolleston back to health. After his return from South Africa, Dalzell became commanding officer of the 1st Battalion, the Oxfordshire Light Infantry. Ultimately promoted to the position of honorary Brigadier-General, Dalzell served on the Western Front during

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Peer

Upon the death of his nephew, Ronald Arthur Dalzell, 12th Earl of Carnwath, in 1931 he succeeded to the peerage as

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and was subsequently elected a Scottish Representative Peer in 1935. He died on 9 March 1941 at his country residence, Sand House, Wedmore,

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. Lady Carnwarth died in 1958.

Sources

* ''The Times'' 30 May 1916 * ''The Times'' 12 March 1941 {{DEFAULTSORT:Carnwath, Arthur Dalzell, 13th Earl Of 1851 births 1941 deaths British Army brigadiers British Army generals of World War I British Army personnel of the Second Boer War Companions of the Order of the Bath

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