Lockerbie House, Dumfriesshire
Lockerbie House was built in 1814 for Sir William Douglas, 4th
Baronet of Kelhead and Dame Grace Johnstone and their children;
Mary, Henry Alexander, William Robert Keith Douglas,
Charles
Douglas, 6th Marquess of Queensberry and
John Douglas, 7th Marquess
of Queensberry.
It was inhabited at one time by several
different members of the Douglas family through the generations.
Such family members include both
Archibald Douglas, 8th Marquis of
Queensberry PC (son of John Douglas) and his wife Caroline Margaret
Clayton (daughter of General Sir William Robert Clayton MP) and
their children British mountaineer Lord Francis William Bouverie
Douglas, Lady Gertrude Georgiana Douglas,
John Sholto Douglas,
Viscount Drumlanrig and later the 9th Marquess of Queensberry,
Clergyman Lord Archibald Edward Douglas and the twins Lord James
Douglas and Lady Florence Dixie (who married Sir Alexander Beaumont
Churchill Dixie, 11th Baronet.) John Sholto Douglas was a patron of
sport and a noted boxing enthusiast. In 1866 he was one of the
founders of the Amateur Athletic Club, now the Amateur Athletic
Association of England. The following year the Club published a set
of twelve rules for conducting boxing matches. The rules had been
drawn up by John Graham Chambers but appeared under Queensberry's
sponsorship and are universally known as the "Marquess of
Queensberry rules". It is thought that such rules were created
within the compounds of Lockerbie House, possibly within the room
now known as "The Queensbury Dining Room". It is also thought that
at one point Oscar Wilde may have also stayed here for a short
amount of time due to his affair with John Sholto Douglas's son the
author and poet Lord Alfred Bruce Douglas.
Lockerbie House is
an important establishment within the town of Lockerbie,
Dumfriesshie, in the past having owned most of the land and housing
within the town mainly through the Johnstone Baronets and Douglas
family. Like much of Lockerbie, this Georgian house is built of old
red sandstone and contains approx. 40 bedrooms, situated within 78
acres (320,000 m2) of secluded woodland and gardens, several
outbuildings including a gatehouse, a 2-acre (8,100 m2) walled
garden, croquet lawn, orchards, helipad and a hunting dog pen. The
property up until recently also possessed a large stable block but
that has since been partly converted into a house with the remaining
stables used by a local riding school. Due to the vast size of the
property it has frequently been used as a county house hotel in
order to help pay for its maintenance and/or provide a prosperous
business.
The house is now owned by outdoor pursuits company
Manor Adventure, and serves as a centre for school activity courses
and family adventure holidays.
Nearby, is All Saints Church, John
Douglas' only Scottish Episcopal Church. It is built in ashlar
stone with a red tile roof and has a west tower with a broach spire.
It was built in 1903.
See also:
Douglas of Lockerbie
Lockerbie (Burgh)
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