George Haig, 2nd Earl Haig

George Alexander Eugene Douglas Haig, 2nd Earl Haig OBE KStJ DL FRSA (15 March 1918 – 9 July 2009) was a British artist and peer who 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. Throughout his life, he was usually known to his family and friends as Dawyck Haig.

In 1937 he was a Page of Honour to King George VI at his Coronation. He was educated at Stowe and at Christ Church, Oxford, receiving a BA in 1939 and a MA in 1950.

Haig served in the Second World War as an officer in the Royal Scots Greys regiment of the British Army and was for some time a prisoner of war in Oflag IV-C POW Camp (better known as Colditz). He finished the war with the rank of captain.

Haig was involved with charities that provided for ex-servicemen founded by his father. He was chairman of the British Legion in Scotland from 1962 to 1965 and president of the Earl Haig Fund from 1980 to 1986. In 1966 he was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire for his services to the British Legion.

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