Brigadier-General Arthur Edward Dalzell, 13th Earl of Carnwath, (25 December 1851 – 9 March 1941) was a British Army officer and a Scottish representative peer.
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Family
Dalzell was born into an old Scottish family. He was the fourth of five children born to Colonel the Honourable Robert Alexander George Dalzell (1816–1878) and Sarah Bushby Harris (1821–1916). 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. His elder brother Robert succeeded an uncle as Earl of Carnwath in 1887, when Arthur and his sisters were raised to the rank of children of an Earl by Royal Warrant of Precedence.
Dalzell married Muriel Wyndham Knatchbull, daughter of Colonel Norton Knatchbull, at St Peter's Church, Eaton Square, on 4 December 1902. They had two children:
Muriel Marjorie Dalzell (22 September 1903 – 18 February 1995), married in 1927 Major John Norton Taylor.
Arthur Robert Dalzell (11 March 1907 – 28 February 1909).
Military career
Receiving his education at East Sheen and Cheltenham, Dalzell joined the 12th Suffolk Regiment as an Ensign in 1870. The following year he transferred to the 52nd (Oxfordshire) 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 before 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 appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath on 29 November 1900 for his services there.
