Field Marshal Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig was born on 19 June 1861 in a house on Charlotte Square, Edinburgh, (but with postal address 19 Hope Street, the side street to the south-west; a plaque exists). His father John Richard Haig—an irascible alcoholic—was middle class ("in trade"), though as head of the family's successful Haig & Haig whisky distillery, he had an income of £10,000 per year (£1,160,000 in 2018), an enormous amount at the time. His mother, Rachel (daughter of Hugh Veitch of Stewartfield), was from a gentry family fallen into straitened circumstances. Rachel's cousin, Violet Veitch, was mother of the playwright, composer and performer Noël Coward. He married Hon. Dorothy Maud Vivian, daughter of Hussey Crespigny Vivian, 3rd Baron Vivian and Louisa Alice Duff, on 11 July 1905. He died on 30 January 1928 at age 66.
The current chief of Clan Haig is Alexander Haig, 3rd Earl Haig (b. 1961), grandson of Field Marshal Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig of First World War fame.
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