[7] For the Lovat Scouts, he chose the best marksmen he could find and the perfect commander in Andrew David Murray.

The corps arrived in South Africa in early 1900, and was attached to the Black Watch, but was disbanded in July 1901 while two companies (the 113th and 114th) were formed for the Imperial Yeomanry.

[8] The war ended in June 1902, and Lord Lovat relinquished his commission with the Imperial Yeomanry and was granted the honorary rank of major in the army on 11 July 1902.

[9] He returned to the United Kingdom with the corps on the SS Tintagel Castle the following month, arriving to a public welcome in Inverness in late August.

Lord Lovat was appointed a Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (CVO) in 1903 by King Edward VII.

[4] Apart from a military career Lovat was also Chairman of the Forestry Commission from 1919 to 1927 and served in the Conservative administration of Stanley Baldwin as Under-Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs from 1927 to 1929.

Among the Fraser family estates was Beaufort Castle in Scotland (rebuilt by his father in the late 1870s) and 181,800 acres of land.

[1] Together, they were the parents of five children, four of whom lived to maturity:[4] Lovat died of a heart attack in London in February 1933, aged 61,[1] and was succeeded by his eldest son Simon as the 15th Lord Lovat (known as the 17th Lord), who distinguished himself during the D-Day landings at Normandy in June 1944.