Robert McCalmont

Brigadier Sir Robert Chaine Alexander McCalmont KCVO CBE DSO DL (29 August 1881 – 4 November 1953) was a Northern Irish unionist politician and British Army officer.[1]

Macalmont was born in Merrion Square East in Dublin, the son of Colonel and MP James Martin McCalmont, and the former Mary Caroline Roman. He was educated at Eton College.[1]

In 1900, he joined the Royal Warwickshire Regiment and served in the Boer War.[1]

After the death of his father, Robert Macalmont was took his father's seat as an Irish Unionist MP in the House of Commons for Antrim East at the 1913 by-election.[1]

He served with the Irish Guards in the First World War, and reached the rank of Brigadier-General. He was appointed a Companion of the Distinguished Service Order in the 1917 New Year Honours and a Commander of the Royal Victorian Order in the 1937 Coronation Honours.[2] He was appointed Honorary Colonel of 44th (Home Counties) Divisional Signals, Royal Corps of Signals, on 16 July 1937.[3] He was invested as a Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order in 1952.[1]

He died in a Dublin nursing home in 1953, aged 72.[1]