Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Edward Archibald Udny-Hamilton, 11th Lord Belhaven and Stenton, CIE, DL (8 April 1871 – 26 October 1950) was a Scottish representative peer and a soldier.
On 15 November 1898, he married Kathleen Gonville Bromhead and they had two children:
Kathleen died in 1935 and Hamilton married Sheila de Hauteville Pearson on 25 March 1938. They had two children:
Hamilton rose to the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel in the service of the Indian Army and fought in the Chitral expedition in 1895, the Tirah Campaign from 1897 to 1898 and the Mesopotamia campaign from 1915 and 1918, where he was mentioned in dispatches.
In 1920, he succeeded his uncle (whose son Ralph, Master of Belhaven, had been killed during the defence of Amiens, 31st March 1918) as Lord Belhaven and Stenton. He was baptised as Robert Edward Archibald Hamilton but, in 1934, he legally changed his name to Robert Edward Archibald Udny-Hamilton.
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| Preceded by Alexander Archibald Hagart-Speirs |
Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Scotland 1931–1933 |
Succeeded by The Lord Saltoun |
| Peerage of Scotland | ||
| Preceded by Alexander Hamilton |
Lord Belhaven and Stenton 1920–1950 |
Succeeded by Robert Hamilton |