Sholto George Watson Douglas, 19th Earl of Morton

Photograph from People's Journal, 1928

Sholto George Watson Douglas was born November 5, 1844. In 1877 he wed Helen, daughter of Charles, 2nd Baron de Mauley of Canford. He succeeded his father in 1884. 

He served as a Representative Peer from 1886 to his passing on October 8, 1935. His eldest son, Sholto Charles, Lord Aberdour, predeceased his father on September 29, 1911, so the Morton honours passed to the 19th Earl's grandson.

Sholto George Watson Douglas, 19th Earl of Morton, was apparently a partner in a coal mining operation in Spitzbergen.

The 1911 edition of Slater's Directory shows him as a landowner and resident of Conaglen House in Ardgour, Argyllshire.  Additionaly, he is shown has having an address at the Carlton Club, SW London.  His grandson, Ian Douglas, married a Maclean of Ardgour in 1946.

He and the Countess are listed in a memorial in Ardgour church

• Birth: 5 NOV 1844
• Death: 8 OCT 1935
  
  Father: Sholto John (18th Earl of Morton) Douglas b: 13 APR 1813
  Mother: Helen Watson
  
  Marriage 1 Helen (Hon) Geraldine Ponsonby
  • Married: 25 JUL 1877
  Children
  1. Sholto Charles (Lord Aberdour) Douglas b: 4 DEC 1878
  2. Charles William Sholto Douglas b: 19 JUL 1881
  3. Archibald Roderick Sholto Douglas b: 11 SEP 1883 = Winona Constance de Maraisville Peake
  4. William Sholto Douglas b: 11 JUN 1886
  5. Ronald John Sholto Douglas b: 22 APR 1890 = Alexandra Albertha Jean Hamilton

See also The Earls of Morton