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- ROBERT NUGENT DEWAR-DURIE, OBE (1918), MC (1918), (de jure 13th of Craigluscar), served with 35th Co Imperial Yeomanry and Gen Rundle?s Div in South African War 1899-1901 with Imperial Yeo, (Queen?s Medal and 4 clasps), in WW I on a variety of special assignments in Persia and Russia as Liaison Offr (Capt) and as financial advisor to Caucacus Military Mission, (Stanislas Medal 2nd class, 1916, and St Anne Medal 2nd class, 1917), and in WW II with the Home Guard; a banker with Imperial Bank of Persia 1901-14 and 1919-28 ultimately as Inspector Gen; b 26 Dec 1879; m 1st 14 Nov 1904 in Teheran, Persia (divorce 1940) Ida Caroline Pollexfen (d 27 April 1972), dau of John Varley, the landscape painter.
Robert Nugent was a fascinating chap. He was in the Imperial Yeomanry in the Boer War, became Chief Inspecgtor of the Imperial Bank of Persia, served as an officer in both Persia and Russia and was a prisoner of the Bolsheviks
for a few months in 1918, received the OBE for "political and military intelligence", the MC for his war work in Russia and various other decorations and m. Ida Varley, daughter of the painter John Varley in Teheran.
They had
1. 1905 Raymond Varley Dewar DURIE m (1) Joan (Dolby) d 1933 m (2) Frances St John MAULE (1915- )
2. 1912 Rosamund Lt Col. Raymond Varley Dewar DURIE was a noted soldier and Chinese scholar.
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1879 - 1959 (80 years)