Lieutenant-Colonel Lieutenant colonel ( , ) is a rank of commissioned officers in the armies, most marine forces and some air forces of the world, above a major and below a colonel. Several police forces in the United States use the rank of lieutenant colo ...

Robert Harris Carnwath Dalzell, 11th Earl of Carnwath (1 July 1847 – 8 March 1910) was a Scottish hereditary peer and soldier. He was the eldest of five children born to

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the Honourable ''The Honourable'' (British English) or ''The Honorable'' ( American English; see spelling differences) (abbreviation: ''Hon.'', ''Hon'ble'', or variations) is an honorific style that is used as a prefix before the names or titles of certain ...

Robert Alexander George Dalzell (1816–1878) and Sarah Bushby Harris (1821–1916). His mother was the daughter of John Harris RN (1782–1850), of Eldon House, Treasurer of the London District of

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, and Amelia Ryerse, UE (1798–1882). His paternal grandfather was Robert Alexander Dalzell, 6th Earl of Carnwath, who had been restored to the Earldom of Carnwath and associated titles by an Act of Parliament in 1826. Three of Lieutenant-Colonel Dalzell's uncles had succeeded to the titles before he inherited them in 1887. On 19 August 1873 he married Emily Sulivan Hippisley (1853–1889) and they had four children: * Lady Ida Elizabeth Dalzell (9 June 1876 – bef. 1934), married, in 1907, Frederick Ramon de Bertodano, Marques del Moral * Robert Hippisley Dalzell, Lord Dalzell (30 September 1877 – 2 August 1904) * Lady Violet Charlotte Dalzell (18 March 1879 – 1 October 1956), married, in 1901, Lt.-Col. Hon. Harold Greenwood Henderson * Ronald Arthur Dalzell, 12th Earl of Carnwath (1883–1931) Dalzell served with the

Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders The Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders or 79th (The Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders) Regiment of Foot was a line infantry regiment of the British Army, raised in 1793. It amalgamated with the Seaforth Highlanders (Ross-shire Buffs, The Duke of Al ...

, rising to the rank of

lieutenant-colonel Lieutenant colonel ( , ) is a rank of commissioned officers in the armies, most marine forces and some air forces of the world, above a major and below a colonel. Several police forces in the United States use the rank of lieutenant colo ...

. A representative peer for Scotland, he died while walking from his home, Carnwath House, Fulham, to the

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. The grave of the 11th Earl is marked "12th Earl of Carnwath", which was actually the title of his successor, his second (but only surviving) son Ronald. This increment to the 11th Earl's number stems from

Robert Dalzell, 1st Lord Dalzell Robert Dalzell, 1st Lord Dalzell (c.1550−1636), known as Sir Robert Dalzell from 1602 to 1628, was a Scottish nobleman who raised to the Peerage as a Lord of Parliament in the Peerage of Scotland on 18 September 1628, by King Charles I. He wa ...

often (though incorrectly) being included as the 1st Earl. Dalzell visited Sweden on two occasions, in 1895 and 1908, and there became acquainted with Swedish author, painter and cartoonist

Albert Engström Albert Engström (1869 – 1940) was a Swedish artist, author and member of the Swedish Academy from 1922. Albert Engström. ''sv.wikipedia.org''. Retrieved: June 27, 2013. Author and Artist Engström was born in Lönneberga, Kalmar County ( ...

(1869–1940). Engström wrote about their meetings in the short essay "Ett minne från England" (Swe., "A memory from England"), which was published in his book ''En bok till'' (Swe., ''Another Book'', 1909).

References

*Harris, Robin and Harris, Terry, eds. ''The Eldon House Diaries''. Toronto: Champlain Society, 1994. *

External links

The Harris Family of London, Ontario
1847 births 1910 deaths

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