Editing Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig (section)

===Marriage and children===
On leave from India, Haig married Dorothy Maud Vivian on 11 July 1905 after a whirlwind courtship (she had spotted him for the first time when he was playing polo at Hurlingham two years earlier). She was a daughter of [[Hussey Vivian, 3rd Baron Vivian]] and Louisa Duff.<ref name=mosley>Charles Mosley, Ed, Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition. Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003, volume 1.</ref>{{rp|562}}

The couple had four children:
* Lady Alexandra Henrietta Louisa Haig<ref>{{cite web|title=Lady Alexandra Haig|url=http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw202501/|publisher=National Portrait Gallery|access-date=22 June 2013}}</ref> (9 March 1907 – 1997); First married to Rear-Admiral [[Clarence Howard-Johnston]], with whom she had three children: [[James Howard-Johnston]], Xenia, and Peter. She secondly married in 1954 historian [[Hugh Trevor-Roper]], who was later created Baron Dacre of Glanton.
* Lady Victoria Doris Rachel Haig (7 November 1908 – 1993). Married Colonel [[Claud Andrew Montagu Douglas Scott]] on 10 August 1929, with whom she had two children (divorced 1951)<ref name=mosley />{{rp|562}}
*[[George Haig, 2nd Earl Haig|George Alexander Eugene Douglas Haig, 2nd Earl Haig]] (15 March 1918 – 10 July 2009)
*[[Irene Astor, Baroness Astor of Hever|Lady Irene Violet Freesia Janet Augusta Haig]] (7 October 1919 – 2001); wife of [[Gavin Astor, 2nd Baron Astor of Hever]]

Haig had used his leave in 1905 to lobby for a job at the War Office, but the proposal was rejected by [[H. O. Arnold-Forster]], the [[Secretary of State for War]], as too blatantly relying on royal influence.<ref>Groot 1988, p. 108.</ref>