Earl Haig is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom

Peerage of the United Kingdom

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. It was created in 1919 for Field Marshal

Field Marshal (UK)

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 Sir Douglas Haig

Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig

Field Marshal Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig, KT, GCB, OM, GCVO, KCIE, ADC, was a British senior officer during World War I. He commanded the British Expeditionary Force from 1915 to the end of the War...

. During the World War I

World War I

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, he was Commander of the British Expeditionary Force in France

France

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 and Belgium

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 (1915-18). Haig was made Viscount Dawick and Baron Haig, of Bemersyde in the County of Berwick, at the same time he was given the earldom, also in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. The viscountcy of Dawick is used as a courtesy title

Courtesy title

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 by the Earl's son and heir apparent. the titles are held by the first Earl's grandson, the third Earl, who succeeded his father in 2009.

The family seat is Bemersyde House

Bemersyde House

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, near Newtown St. Boswells

Newtown St. Boswells

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, Roxburghshire

Roxburghshire

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Earls Haig (1919)

• Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig
  Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig
  Field Marshal Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig, KT, GCB, OM, GCVO, KCIE, ADC, was a British senior officer during World War I. He commanded the British Expeditionary Force from 1915 to the end of the War...
  
   (1861–1928)
• George Alexander Eugene Douglas Haig, 2nd Earl Haig
  George Haig, 2nd Earl Haig
  George Alexander Eugene Douglas Haig, 2nd Earl Haig OBE KStJ RSA DL succeeded to the Earldom of Haig on 29 January 1928, at the age of nine, upon the death of his father, Field Marshal the 1st Earl Haig. Until then he was styled Viscount Dawick...
  
  (1918–2009)
• Alexander Douglas Derrick Haig, 3rd Earl Haig (b. 1961)