Arthur Dalzell, 13th Earl of Carnwath

Who was Arthur Dalzell, 13th Earl of Carnwath?

Arthur Edward Dalzell, 13th Earl of Carnwath CB, was a British Army officer and a Representative Peer of Scotland. He was born into an old Anglo-Irish 'Ascendancy' family.

Lord Carnwath was the fourth of five children born to The Hon. Robert Alexander George Dalzell and Sarah Bushby Harris. 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, London, Ontario, Canada. Eldon House, built in 1834, its 11-acre grounds and collections were given to the city of London as a museum in 1960.

Dalzell married Muriel Wyndham Knatchbull in 1902 and had two children:

Muriel Marjorie Dalzell, married Maj. John Norton Taylor in 1927

Arthur Robert Dalzell

Receiving his education at East Sheen and Cheltenham, he joined the 12th or Suffolk Regiment as an ensign in 1870. The following year he transferred to the 52nd Regiment of Foot and was commissioned a lieutenant 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 Malta he first saw active service in Upper Burma between 1891 and 1892. By now a major he was appointed as Inspector of Gymnasia in Bengal and Punjab he returned to his regular duties in 1896. Further promotions followed and he served in the Second Boer War, seeing action at Paardeberg and other campaigns during the conflict. He was made a Companion of the Bath on 29 November 1900 for his services there.