Lovat was commissioned into the Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders and promoted Lieutenant in 1890, but transferred to the 1st Life Guards in 1894. In 1897 he resigned from the Regular Army and joined a volunteer battalion of the Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders. In 1899 he raised the Lovat Scouts, and served as their second-in-command in the South African War, where he was awarded the Distinguished Service Order. In World War I, he commanded the Highland Mounted Brigade, being promoted Brigadier-General in September 1914. In 1919 he was appointed Army Director of Forestry.
Apart from his military career Lord Lovat was also Chairman of the Forestry Commission from 1919 to 1927 and served in the Conservative administration of Stanley Baldwin as Under-Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs from 1926 to 1927. He was made a Knight of the Thistle in 1915.
Lord Lovat married Hon. Laura Lister, daughter of Thomas Lister, 4th Baron Ribblestone, in 1910. They had five children. Lovat died in February 1933, aged 61, and was succeeded by his eldest son Simon as the 15th Lord Lovat (known as the 17th Lord) who distinguished himself during the D-Day landings at Normandy in June 1944 and his younger son Sir Hugh Fraser was a successful politician.
References
- Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990.
- Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page
- www.thepeerage.com
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