Robert Dalzell, 11th Earl of Carnwath

Lieutenant-Colonel 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 Colonel the Honourable Robert Alexander George Dalzell (18161878) and Sarah Bushby Harris (18211916).[1]

His mother was the daughter of John Harris RN (17821850), of Eldon House, Treasurer of the London District of Upper Canada, and Amelia Ryerse, UE (17981882).[2]

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 (18531889) and they had four children:

Dalzell served with the Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders, rising to the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel. A representative peer for Scotland, he died while walking from his home, Carnwath House, Fulham, to the House of Lords. He was succeeded by his second (but only surviving) son, Ronald.

References

  1. http://www.eldonhouse.ca/d.aspx?s=/The_Family/default.htm Harris family
  2. Morgan, Henry James Types of Canadian women and of women who are or have been connected with Canada : (Toronto, 1903)

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Peerage of Scotland
Preceded by
Harry Burrard Dalzell
Earl of Carnwath
18871910
Succeeded by
Ronald Arthur Dalzell


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