Sir John North Dalrymple Dick-Lauder of Fountainhall, 11th Baronet, born 22 July 1883 at

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, and baptised at Christ Church, Mussoorie,

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. He was the only child of Sir George William Dalrymple Dick Lauder, 10th Baronet (d.1936) by his spouse Jane Emily Clifford (d.1921), daughter of W P Woodward, of the Indian Civil Service. He was educated at

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and the

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, passing out on 21 January 1903, when he was commissioned a second lieutenant in the

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. In 1904 he joined the

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(later 6th Duke of Connaught's Own Lancers). During the

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, he firstly was ADC to Major General G. A. Cookson, commander of the 2nd Indian Cavalry Division in France & Flanders from December 1914 to August 1915. After that he served in Mesopotamia, being

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in October 1916, and from August 1917 to the end of the war on the Staff. He saw service on the North West Frontier in 1930-31 and was

again. He retired a Lieutenant-Colonel in February 1934. He commanded the 1st Battalion

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during

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. He was made Honorary

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of the 412th Coast Regiment Royal Artillery ( Territorial Army) 1948–51. Dick-Lauder held the office of Vice-Lieutenant of

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between 1945 and 1958.*Profile at thepeerage.com.
/ref> On 24 February 1914 he married Phyllis Mary (d. 5 April 1976) daughter of Brigadier-General Herbert Augustus Iggulden,

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They had two sons and one daughter. He died 19 September 1958 at White House, Nigg,

, Scotland. The second son,

Sir George Dick-Lauder, 12th Baronet Sir George Andrew Dick Lauder, 12th Baronet of the Fountainhall creation (17 November 1917 – 11 August 1981), was a British author and soldier. He succeeded to the baronetcy in 1958 on the death of his father Sir John North Dalrymple Dick-Lau ...

succeeded him.

References

* ''Debrett's Baronetage'', London, 1971. * ''Burke's Peerage & Baronetage'', 106th edition. * The Malvern Register (1865–1904), 1905, p. 404.
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1883 births 1958 deaths People educated at Malvern College Graduates of the Royal Military College, Sandhurst Scottish soldiers Baronets in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia British Indian Army officers Indian Army personnel of World War I British Home Guard officers People from Kapurthala {{NovaScotia-baronet-stub