NOTED SCOTS PEER

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21473, 22 April 1933, Page 2 (Supplement)

NOTED SCOTS PEER

FATAL SEIZURE AT RACES FOUNDER OF FAMOUS SCOUTS Head of a famous Scottish family, Lord Lovat died recently in tragic circumstances at the age of 61. He had been staying -with Lady Lovat at' the Old Palace, St. Aldate's, Oxford, the home of Father ftonald Knox, and he attended the Magdalen point-to-point steeplechases at Showell Farm, Little Tew, near Chipping Norton, being then apparently in good health. Lord Lovat was seized with sudden illness while watching his son, the Master of Lovat, win the Magdalen Old Members' Challenge Cup on bis horse Ice Rink. He was hurried to a hospital, but be died on tho way. Chief of the Fraser Clan, and tho 14th baron, Lord 1/ovat succeeded his father in tho title in 1887. First and foremost ho was a soldier. In the South African War ho was captain of Lovat's Scouts, the force he raised himself. This famous battalion consisted of young Scottish farmers and ghillies, who were experts at stalking arid shooting, and knew how to meet the Boers at their own tactics. From the beginning to the end of the Great War Lord Lovat commanded the Highland Mounted Brigade. -In 1910 he married the Hon. Laura Lister, a daughter of the fourth baron Ribblesdale and a niece of the Countess of Oxford and Asquith. Her marriage took place from 10 Downing Street, Mr. Asquith being then Prime Minister. Tho heir to the barony is the elder son, the Master of Lovat, who is a second lieutenant in the Scots Guards. He is 21 and unmarried.