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- Sir George Douglas was 2nd Baronet - presumably he was father to the 3rd Baronet...???
Captain (RN) Sir James was 1st Baronet. See entry is 'History' section
Sir J. J. S. Douglas, Bart.
Jan. 24. At Boulogne-sur-Seine, near Paris, Sir John James Scott Douglas, the third Baronet of Springwood Park and Long Newton, co. Roxburgh (1786).
He was the only son of Sir George the second Baronet, by Lady Elizabeth Boyle, elder daughter of John 3d Earl of Glasgow, and sister to the present Earl. He succeeded to the title on the death of his father, June 4s 1821.
He married Aug. 15, 1822, HannahCharlotte, only daughter and heiress of Henry Scott, of Belford, co. Roxburgh, esq. in consequence of which union he assumed, by royal sign manual, dated July 10 in the same year, the name and arms of Scott, in addition to those of Douglas. He had issue a danghter, Catharine-Elizabeth-Isabella, born in 1824; and Sir George.Henry Scott-Douglas, born in 1825, who has succeeded to the title; and other younger children.
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