Major William Hew Sholto Douglas (born 5th April 1947)
was an army officer who is the compiler of the Douglas Archives.
The son of
Ian Fitzroy Sholto Douglas, a grandson of the Earl of Morton, and
Heather Joan Maclean of Ardgour, he was born in Ardgour House. He was
educated at Harrow School before being commissioned, in 1966, into the
Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders.
He served in Aden, Berlin, West Germany, Cyprus and in Northern
Ireland. Serving with the Gordon Highlanders in Cyprus in 1971, he was
Information Officer for Paphos District of the United Nations
peacekeeping force (UNFICYP). In 1980, following training in England and
Italy, he was the Electronic Warfare Officer for the British Army of the
Rhine (BAOR), seconded to Headquarters Northern Army Group (NORTHAG) and
2nd Allied Tactical Airforce (2ATAF).
Subsequently, he was a
member of the Royal Company of Archers and the Territorial Army.
Amongst various charitable commitments he held a directorship of the
ChildLine Trading Company, represented locally the Royal Scottish
Agricultural Benevolent Institute and supported local community charity websites.
A former trustee of the Clan Maclean Heritage Trust, he now supports
the restoration of Duart Castle. He has supported
and worked with a conservation charity in a successful bid
to acquire and protect a Douglas
estate.
In 2017, a pipe tune was composed in his honour -
A Jig for William
Hew Sholto Douglas.
William married, 1st February 1986, Frances Mary
Riddle, daughter of Brigadier Robert W Blackwell Riddle and Ann Miller.
She was born January 23, 1961 in Hong Kong .
Children of William Douglas and Frances Riddle are:
1. Peter Sholto Douglas, b. April 17, 1987, Dumfries.
2.
Charles Robert Douglas, b. May 28, 1989, Dumfries.
3. Kerry Ann
Heather Douglas b. October 10, 1991, Stirling.
4. Andrew William
Douglas, b. February 6, 1993, Stirling.
5. Fiona Jane Frances
Douglas, b. November 24, 2000, Stirling.
Matriculation of
arms
The Lord Lyon King of Arms by Interlocutor of date
20 April 1982
Granted Warrant to the Lyon Clerk to matriculate in the
Public Register of All Arms and Bearings in Scotland in name of the
Petitioner the following Ensigns Armorial, videlicet:—
Quarterly, first and fourth,
Argent, a man's heart Gules ensigned of Imperial crown Proper, on a
chief Azure three mullets of the First;
second and third, Argent,
three piles issuant Gules, the exteriors charged in chief with a mullet
of the First, all within a bordure Purpure.
Above the Shield is
placed an Helmet befitting his degree, with a Mantling Gules doubled
Argent, and on a Wreath of the Liveries is set for Crest a sanglier
Purpure sticking between two clefts of an oak tree Proper fructed Vert,
a chain and lock Azure holding the two clefts together,
and in an
Escrol over the same this Motto "A LOCK SICKER".
See also:
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