Arthur Balfour Haig

Lieutenant-Colonel Arthur Balfour Haig, CMG, CVO (10 July 1840 – 15 April 1925) was a British Army officer, courtier, and Conservative Party political agent.[1][2]

A second cousin of Field-Marshal the Earl Haig, Arthur Balfour Haig was educated at Rugby School and the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich. Commissioned into the Royal Engineers in 1859, he came to the notice of Queen Victoria and served in the household of Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh and later Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, from 1864 until Prince Alfred's death in 1880, following which Haig was made extra equerry by Kings Edward VII and George V.

Having served as Conservative Party agent for Scotland for 15 years, Haig was Principal Agent of the Conservative Party from 1905 to 1906.

He was the 28h Laird of Clan Haig.

References
  1. "Lieut.-Colonel Haig". The Times. 17 April 1925. p. 12.
  2. "Lieut.-Colonel A. B. Haig". The Daily Telegraph. 18 April 1925. p. 4.
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