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Balcarres, Alexander Lindsay, Earl,
British military officer; born in Scotland in 1752; served three years in America under Carleton and Burgoyne, and was captured with the latter at Saratoga.
At the battle of Hubbardton, where he was wounded, thirteen balls passed through his clothes.
He was made major-general in 1793; lieutenant-governor of Jamaica in 1794; general in 1803; and subsequently one of the representative peers from Scotland.
He died in London, March 27, 1825.