1662 - 1711 (48 years)
Generation: 1
Generation: 2
3. | James (Earl of Drumlanrig) Douglas (1.James1) was born on 2 Nov 1697; died on 17 Feb 1714. Notes:
Infamous cannibal. Eldest son of James Douglas (1662 - 1711), the 'Union' Duke of Queensberry, the Earl of Drumlanrig was dangerously mentally disturbed.
While confined in Queensberry House (Edinburgh), he managed to escape from his quarters while his father and the rest of the household were out celebrating the successful enactment of the Treaty of Union (1707), or perhaps watching the ensuing riots in the streets. While looking for food, Douglas found only a kitchen-boy remaining in the house, but proceeded to mount him on a spit and roast him alive.
It was only after Douglas had partially devoured the boy did other servants return and discover what had happened. The incident was seen as due punishment for the 'Union Duke' by those who had not supported his position.
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4. | Charles (3rd Duke of Queensbury) Douglas (1.James1) was born on 24 Nov 1698; died on 22 Oct 1778 in London. Notes:
Charles Douglas, 3rd Duke of Queensberry and 2nd Duke of Dover (1698 - 1778) was a Scottish nobleman.
The son of James Douglas, 2nd Duke of Queensberry, 1st Duke of Dover, and Mary Boyle, daughter of Charles Boyle, Viscount Dungarven, was a Privy Counsellor and Vice Admiral of Scotland.
He took up the cause of John Gay when a licence for his opera Polly was refused in 1728. He quarrelled with George II and resigned his appointments in the same year. He was a founding governor of the Foundling Hospital, created in 1739. He was appointed Keeper of the Great Seal of Scotland in 1761 and was Lord Justice General from 1763 to 1778.
He was created Lord Douglas of Lockerbie, Dalveen and Thornhill, Viscount of Tiberris and Earl of Solway on 17 June 1707, .
Charles married Catherine Hyde on 10 Mar 1720. Catherine (daughter of Henry (4th Earl of Clarendon) Hyde and Jane Leveson-Gower) was born in 1701; died on 17 Jul 1777. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
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Generation: 3
11. | Charles (Earl of Drumlanrig) Douglas (4.Charles2, 1.James1) was born on 17 Jul 1726; died on 24 Oct 1756. Notes:
Charles, the younger son of Charles 3rd Duke of Queensberry, became earl of Drumlanrig on his brother's accidental death. Born 17th July 1726, he was also educated at Winchester and Oxford. He was chosen M.P. for the county of Dumfries, at the general election of 1747, and re-elected in 1754. Having gone to Lisbon on account of his health, he was in that city when the celebrated earthquake took place, 1st November 1755. He returned home the following year, and died, 24th October 1756, unmarried.
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Generation: 4
16. | Frances Scott (12.Francis3, 8.Jane2, 1.James1) was born on 26 Jul 1750; died in May 1817. Notes:
Known as Frances, Lady Douglas, but more correctly, Lady Douglas, she was a friend of Sir Walter Scott and Lady Louisa Stuart. She was the sixth and posthumous child of Francis Scott, earl of Dalkeith (1721? 1750).
A full biography can be found in the History section.
Frances married Archibald James Edward (Stewart) (3rd Marquess of Douglas) Douglas on 13 May 1783. Archibald (son of Sir John (3rd of Grandtully) Stewart and Jane (of Douglas) Douglas) was born on 10 Jul 1748; died on 26 Dec 1827. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
Children:
- 24. Frances Elizabeth Douglas
was born about 1785; died on 14 Sep 1854.
- 25. Hon Caroline Lucy Douglas
was born about 1785; died on 20 Apr 1857 in Petersham, Surrey, England.
- 26. Sholto Scott Douglas
was born on 17 Sep 1785; died on 30 Oct 1821.
- 27. Hon. Rev. James (4th Lord Douglas of Douglas) Douglas
was born on 9 Jul 1787; was christened on 6 Aug 1787 in Petersham, Surrey, England; died on 6 Apr 1857 in Bothwell Castle, Lanarkshire, Scotland; was buried in Douglas, Scotland.
- 28. Hon Capt George Douglas
was born on 2 Aug 1788; died in 1838.
- 29. Hon Henry Douglas
was born about 1790.
- 30. Hon John Douglas
was born about 1790.
- 31. Mary Sydney Douglas
was born on 16 Jul 1796; was christened on 10 Aug 1796 in St Peters, Petersham, Surrey; died in 29 Sep1882 in Springhill, , near Coldstream.
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