LORD LOVAT DEAD.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 42, 20 February 1933, Page 7

LORD LOVAT DEAD.

STATESMAN AND SOLDIER. LONDON, February 19. The death has occurred of Lord Lovat, formerly Parliamentary Undersecretary for the Dominions, who raised the Lovat Scouts in the South African War.

Chief of the Fraser clan and the 14th baron of a famous Jacobite line. Lord Lovat succeeded to the title at the age of 16, while at Oxford. He first saw service in the Life Guards. For the South African war he raised Lovat's Scouts, which he comma Tided himself. On his return he raised two Yeomanry regiments, which formed part of the Highland Mounted Brigade, which he led until his retirement in 1913 with the rank of colonel. .

During the Great War Lord Lovat served in Gallipoli, France and Flanders. Later lie acted as Director of Forestry, in which post he displayed great ability, as he had for years carried out afforestation work at great expense on his Inver-ness-shire and other Highland estates. From 1926 to 1929 he was Parliamentary Under-Secretary of the Dominions Office. In that capacity he visited Auckland in October, 1928. His seat is Beauly Castle, and he owned about 182,000 acres in Scotland. The heir to the barony is Lieutenant Simon Christopher Fraser, Master of Lovat, who was born in July, 1911. He is an officer of the Scots Guards.