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Sir Robert Chaine Alexander McCalmont (29 August 1881 – 4 November 1953) was a Northern Irish unionist politician and British Army officer. Macalmont was born in Merrion Square East in Dublin, the son of Colonel and MP

James Martin McCalmont Colonel James Martin McCalmont (23 May 1847 – 2 February 1913) was a British Army officer and Conservative, later Irish Unionist, politician. Early life and education McCalmont was born in May 1847, second and final son of James McCalmont ...

, and Mary Caroline Roman. He was educated at Eton College. In 1900, he joined the Royal Warwickshire Regiment and served in the Second Boer War. After the death of his father, Robert Macalmont took his father's seat as an Irish Unionist MP in the House of Commons for Antrim East at the

1913 Events January * January 5 – First Balkan War: Battle of Lemnos (1913), Battle of Lemnos – Greek admiral Pavlos Kountouriotis forces the Turkish fleet to retreat to its base within the Dardanelles, from which it will not ven ...

by-election. He served with the Irish Guards in the First World War, and reached the rank of

. He was appointed a Companion of the Distinguished Service Order in the

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and a Commander of the Royal Victorian Order in the

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. He was appointed Honorary Colonel of 48th (South Midland) Divisional Signals,

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, on 16 July 1937.''Monthly Army List''. He was appointed a Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order in 1952. He died in a Dublin nursing home in 1953, aged 72.

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