Haig's education began in 1869 as a boarder at Mr Bateson's School in Clifton Bank, St Andrews. Later in 1869, he switched to Edinburgh Collegiate School, and then in 1871 to Orwell House, a preparatory school in Warwickshire. He then attended Clifton College."Clifton College Register" Muirhead, J.A.O. p. 67: BristolJ.W Arrowsmith for Old Cliftonian Society; April 1948. Both of Haig's parents had died by the time he was eighteen.Groot 1988, p. 18.
