sentences:  He was educated at Monkton Combe School, Eton, Trinity College, Cambridge and the University of Edinburgh and was admitted as an advocate in 1897.Lord Cassilis was appointed a captain in the 3rd (Militia) Battalion of the Royal Scots Fusiliers on 7 January 1900, and served in the Second Boer War 1900–02, where he won two medals and five clasps.Following the end of hostilities in early June 1902, he left Cape Town on board the "SS Wakool", and arrived at Southampton the next month.