Archibald William, 8th Marquess of Queensberry

Archibald William, born in 1818, married Caroline M. Clayton, daughter of General Sir William R. Clayton, in 1840. He died in 1858, passing the honours to his son.

John Sholto Douglas, 8th marquess of Queensberry (1844-1900), son of Archibald William, the 7th marquess (1818-1858), became a well-known patron of sport and particularly of pugilism. He helped to found the Amateur Athletic Club in 1860, and the new rules for prize-fighting, drawn up in 1867, were called after him the " Queensberry Rules." He married the daughter of Alfred Montgomery, and was succeeded by his son, Percy Sholto, 9th marquess (b. 1868).

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Archibald William Douglas, 8th Marquis of Queensberry PC (18 April 1818 – 6 August 1858) was the son of John Douglas, 7th Marquis of Queensberry.

He married Caroline Margaret Clayton (1821-1904), daughter of Sir William Clayton MP, at Gretna Green, Scotland in 1840, and they had six children:

>Lady Gertrude Georgiana Douglas (d. 1893), married Thomas Stock
>John Sholto Douglas, 9th Marquis of Queensberry (1844–1900), the man behind the Marquess of Queensberry rules that formed the basis of modern boxing, and, much later, the downfall of author and playwright Oscar Wilde
>Lord Francis William Bouverie Douglas (1847–1865), beaten by A. W. Moore and party by a day to first ascent of the Ober Gabelhorn, killed a week later in the first successful ascent of the Matterhorn
>Rev. Lord Archibald Edward Douglas (1850–1938)
>Lady Florence Caroline Douglas (1855–1905) (twin), war correspondent, travel writer, and feminist
>Lord James Edward Sholto Douglas (1855–1891) (twin), married Martha Lucy Hennessy in 1888, committed suicide

He died while hunting in 1858, officially from the explosion of his gun; the event was widely believed to be a suicide.

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