Robert Hamilton-Udny, 11th Lord Belhaven and Stenton

Who was Robert Hamilton-Udny, 11th Lord Belhaven and Stenton?

Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Edward Archibald Udny-Hamilton, 11th Lord Belhaven and Stenton, CIE, DL was a Scottish representative peer and a soldier.

On 15 November 1898, he married Kathleen Gonville Bromhead and they had two children:

Hon. Julia Hamilton, married the 4th Baron Raglan and had issue.

Robert Alexander Benjamin Hamilton, 12th Lord Belhaven and Stenton married Heather Mildred Carmichael Bell and had issue and Cyrilla Mary Binns, Lady Belhaven and Stenton and had issue.

Kathleen died in 1935 and Lord Belhaven married Sheila de Hauteville Pearson on 25 March 1938. They had two children:

Hon. Margaret de Hauteville Hamilton

Dr. Hon. Victoria Edith Hamilton

Belhaven rose to the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel in the service of the Indian Army and fought in the Chitral expedition in 1895, the Tirah Campaign from 1897 to 1898 and the Mesopotamia campaign from 1915 and 1918, where he was mentioned in dispatches.

In 1920, he succeeded his uncle as Lord Belhaven and Stenton. He was baptised as Robert Edward Archibald Hamilton but, in 1934, he legally changed his name to Robert Edward Archibald Udny-Hamilton.