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{{about|the title "Earl Haig"|the school named after the 1st Earl|Earl Haig Secondary School}}
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| name = Earldom Haig <br /> [[Scottish clan chief|Chief]] of [[Clan Haig]]
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'''''Arms:''' Azure a Saltire between two Mullets in chief and base, a Decrescent and Increscent in fess Argent. '''Crest:''' A Rock proper. '''Supporters:''' Dexter: a Bay Horse caparisoned, thereon mounted a Trooper of the 7th (Queen’s Own) Hussars, habited, armed and accoutred, all proper. Sinister: a Bay Horse caparisoned, thereon mounted a Lancer of the 17th (The Duke of Cambridge’s Own) Lancers, habited, armed and accoutred, all proper.''<ref>{{cite book|last1=Fox-Davies|first1=Arthur Charles|title=The Art of Heraldry: An Encyclopaedia of Armory|date=1904|publisher=T.C. & E.C. Jack|page=[https://archive.org/details/artofheraldryenc00foxd/page/352 352]|url=https://archive.org/details/artofheraldryenc00foxd|
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| creation_date = 18 October 1919<ref name="gaz">{{London Gazette |issue=31610 |date=21 October 1919 |page=12889}}</ref>
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| monarch = [[George V|King George V]]
| peerage = [[Peerage of the United Kingdom]]
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| heir_presumptive =
| remainder_to = 1st Earl's heirs male of the body lawfully begotten
| subsidiary_titles = Viscount Dawick<br />Baron Haig
| status = Extant
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| family_seat = [[Bemersyde House]]
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| motto = '''TYDE WHAT MAY''' <br /> ''(What will be, will be)''
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'''Earl Haig''' is a title in the [[peerage of the United Kingdom]]. It was created in 1919 for [[Field marshal (United Kingdom)|Field Marshal]] [[Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig|Sir Douglas Haig]].{{sfn|Hesilrige|1921|p=431}} During the [[First World War]], he served as
The family seat is [[Bemersyde House]], near [[Newtown St. Boswells]], [[Roxburghshire]].
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The family motto is "''Tyde what may''", which refers to a 13th-century poem by [[Thomas the Rhymer]] which predicted that there would always be a Haig in [[Bemersyde House|Bemersyde]]:
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==Lairds of Bemersyde (c.1150)==
''The dates stated denote the period of proprietorship of the respective Lairds.''<ref>John Russell, ''The Haigs of Bemersyde, A Family History'' (Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1881), pp. 432–47.</ref> *Peter de Haga, 1st of Bemersyde (c.1150–1200)
*Peter de Haga, 2nd of Bemersyde (c.1200–28)
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*Barbara Haig, 26th of Bemersyde (1854–73)
*Sophia Haig, 27th of Bemersyde (1873–78)
*Lt.-Col. [[Arthur Balfour Haig]], C.M.G., C.V.O., J.P., 28th of Bemersyde (1878–1921)
==Earls Haig (1919)==
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*[[George Haig, 2nd Earl Haig|George Alexander Eugene Douglas Haig, 2nd Earl Haig]], 30th of Bemersyde (1918–2009)
*Alexander Douglas Derrick Haig, 3rd Earl Haig, 31st of Bemersyde (b. 1961)
==Present peer==
Alexander Douglas Derrick Haig, 3rd Earl Haig (born 30 June 1961) is the only son of the 2nd Earl and his wife Adrienne Thérèse Morley. He has two older sisters, Lady Adrienne (born 1958) and Lady Elizabeth (born 1959). Styled as Viscount Dawick between 1961 and 2009, he was educated at [[Stowe School]].<ref name=DP>Charles Kidd, ed., ''[[Debrett's|Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage]]'' (London: Debrett's Peerage, 2008), p. 628</ref>
In 2003 he was living at Third Farm, [[Melrose, Scottish Borders|Melrose]], [[Roxburghshire]].<ref name=BP> ''[[Burke's Peerage]]'', vol. 2 (London, 2003), p. 1719</ref> On his father’s death on 9 July 2009, he succeeded to the peerages and became chief of [[Clan Haig]]. The family seat is [[Bemersyde House]], near [[Newtown St Boswells]], Roxburghshire.<ref name=DP/>
In 2003, Haig married Jane Grassick, daughter of Donald McCombie Grassick. There is no heir to the peerages.<ref name=DP/><ref name=BP/>
==References==
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===Sources===
*{{cite book |last=Hesilrige |first=Arthur G. M. |date=1921| title=Debrett's Peerage and Titles of courtesy| url=https://archive.org/details/debrettspeeraget00unse | location=160A, [[Fleet street]], [[London]], UK |publisher=[[Dean & Son]]|page=}}
*Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). ''Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage'' (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990.
*Russell, John. ''The Haigs of Bemersyde, A Family History''. Edinburgh and London, William Blackwood and Sons, 1881.
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[[Category:Earldoms in the Peerage of the United Kingdom]]
[[Category:Noble titles created in 1919]]
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