Marquess of Queensberry
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Peerage of Scotland
The Peerage of Scotland is the division of the British Peerage for those peers created in the Kingdom of Scotland before 1707. With that year's Act of Union, the Kingdom of Scotland and the Kingdom of England were combined into the Kingdom of Great Britain, and a new Peerage of Great Britain was...
of Scotland
Scotland
Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...
. The title has been held since its creation in 1682 by a member of the Douglas family. The Marquesses also held the title of Duke of Queensberry
Duke of Queensberry
The title Duke of Queensberry was created in the Peerage of Scotland in 1684 along with the subsidiary title Marquess of Dumfriesshire for the 1st Marquess of Queensberry...
from 1684 to 1810, when it was inherited by the Duke of Buccleuch
Duke of Buccleuch
The title Duke of Buccleuch , formerly also spelt Duke of Buccleugh, was created in the Peerage of Scotland on 20 April 1663 for the Duke of Monmouth, who was the eldest illegitimate son of Charles II of Scotland, England, and Ireland and who had married Anne Scott, 4th Countess of Buccleuch.Anne...
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The feudal title Baron Drumlanrig was created for William Douglas
William Douglas, 1st Baron Drumlanrig
William Douglas, 1st Baron Drumlanrig was the son of James Douglas, 2nd Earl of Douglas. He fought against the English in the Hundred Years' War in France, where he was killed in action in 1427. He married Elizabeth Stewart, daughter of Sir Robert Stewart of Durisdeer, and had one son, William...
, illegitimate son of James Douglas, 2nd Earl of Douglas
James Douglas, 2nd Earl of Douglas
Sir James Douglas, 2nd Earl of Douglas and Mar was an influential and powerful magnate in the Kingdom of Scotland.-Early life:He was the eldest son and heir of William Douglas, 1st Earl of Douglas and Margaret, Countess of Mar...
, some time before 1427, when he died. His descendant, the 9th Baron Drumlanrig, was created the 1st Earl of Queensberry in 1633.
The subsidiary titles of Lord Queensberry are: Earl of Queensberry (created 1633), Viscount Drumlanrig (1628) and Lord Douglas of Hawick and Tibbers (1628), all in the peerage of Scotland. He is also a Scottish Baronet, styled "of Kelhead", created 26 February 1668, so the 6th Marquess was the 5th Baronet. The courtesy title used by Lord Queensberry's eldest son and heir is Viscount Drumlanrig. There is no special courtesy title for Lord Drumlanrig's eldest son and heir.
The 9th Marquess
John Douglas, 9th Marquess of Queensberry
John Sholto Douglas, 9th Marquess of Queensberry GCVO was a Scottish nobleman, remembered for lending his name and patronage to the "Marquess of Queensberry rules" that formed the basis of modern boxing, for his outspoken atheism, and for his role in the downfall of author and playwright Oscar...
is particularly well-known because of the rules of boxing
Boxing
Boxing, also called pugilism, is a combat sport in which two people fight each other using their fists. Boxing is supervised by a referee over a series of between one to three minute intervals called rounds...
that were named after him (the Marquess of Queensberry rules
Marquess of Queensberry rules
The Marquess of Queensberry rules is a code of generally accepted rules in the sport of boxing. They were named so because John Douglas, 9th Marquess of Queensberry publicly endorsed the code, although they were written by a sportsman named John Graham Chambers. The code of rules on which modern...
), and for his litigious interaction with Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde
Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was an Irish writer and poet. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s...
.
In 22 June 1893, Queen Victoria raised Francis Archibald Douglas, the heir of the 9th Marquess, to the peerage of the United Kingdom
Peerage of the United Kingdom
The Peerage of the United Kingdom comprises most peerages created in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland after the Act of Union in 1801, when it replaced the Peerage of Great Britain...
as Baron Kelhead. Francis Douglas died without descendants the following year and the title "Baron Kelhead" became extinct.
Barons Drumlanrig
- William Douglas, 1st Baron DrumlanrigWilliam Douglas, 1st Baron DrumlanrigWilliam Douglas, 1st Baron Drumlanrig was the son of James Douglas, 2nd Earl of Douglas. He fought against the English in the Hundred Years' War in France, where he was killed in action in 1427. He married Elizabeth Stewart, daughter of Sir Robert Stewart of Durisdeer, and had one son, William...
(d. 1427) - William Douglas, 2nd Baron Drumlanrig (d. 1458)
- William Douglas, 3rd Baron Drumlanrig (d. 1464)
- William Douglas, 4th Baron Drumlanrig (d. 1484)
- James Douglas, 5th Baron Drumlanrig (d. 1498)
- William Douglas, 6th Baron Drumlanrig (d. 1513)
- James Douglas, 7th Baron DrumlanrigJames Douglas, 7th Baron Drumlanrig-Life:He was the son of Sir William Douglas, 6th Baron Drumlanrig and Elizabeth Gordon of Lochinvar....
(d. 1578) - James Douglas, 8th Baron Drumlanrig (d. 1615)
- William Douglas, 9th Baron Drumlanrig (d. 1640) (became Earl of Queensberry in 1633)
Earls of Queensberry (1633)
- William Douglas, 1st Earl of Queensberry (d. 1640)
- James Douglas, 2nd Earl of Queensberry (d. 1671)
- William Douglas, 3rd Earl of QueensberryWilliam Douglas, 1st Duke of QueensberryWilliam Douglas, 1st Duke of Queensberry PC also 3rd Earl of Queensberry and 1st Marquess of Queensberry was a Scottish politician....
(1637–1695) (became Marquess of Queensberry in 1682, and Duke of QueensberryDuke of QueensberryThe title Duke of Queensberry was created in the Peerage of Scotland in 1684 along with the subsidiary title Marquess of Dumfriesshire for the 1st Marquess of Queensberry...
in 1684)
Marquesses (and Dukes) of Queensberry (1682 (1684))
- William Douglas, 1st Duke of QueensberryWilliam Douglas, 1st Duke of QueensberryWilliam Douglas, 1st Duke of Queensberry PC also 3rd Earl of Queensberry and 1st Marquess of Queensberry was a Scottish politician....
(1637–1695) - James Douglas, 2nd Duke of QueensberryJames Douglas, 2nd Duke of QueensberryJames Douglas, 2nd Duke of Queensberry and 1st Duke of Dover was a Scottish nobleman.He was the eldest son of William Douglas, 1st Duke of Queensberry and his wife Isabel Douglas, daughter of William Douglas, 1st Marquess of Douglas.Educated at the University of Glasgow, he was appointed a...
(1672–1711) (became Duke of Dover in 1708) - James Douglas, 3rd Marquess of QueensberryJames Douglas, 3rd Marquess of QueensberryJames Douglas, 3rd Marquess of Queensberry , known until 1711 as James Douglas, Earl of Drumlanrig, was a Scottish nobleman, eldest son to survive infancy of James Douglas, 2nd Duke of Queensberry....
(1697–1714/5) - Charles Douglas, 3rd Duke of QueensberryCharles Douglas, 3rd Duke of QueensberryCharles Douglas, 3rd Duke of Queensberry, 2nd Duke of Dover, PC was a Scottish nobleman.The son of James Douglas, 2nd Duke of Queensberry, 1st Duke of Dover, and Mary Boyle, daughter of Charles Boyle, 3rd Viscount Dungarvan, was a Privy Counsellor and Vice Admiral of Scotland.He took up the cause...
(1698–1778) (Dukedom of Dover extinct in 1778) - William Douglas, 4th Duke of QueensberryWilliam Douglas, 4th Duke of QueensberryWilliam Douglas, 4th Duke of Queensberry KT was a Scottish nobleman.Born in Peebles, Queensberry was the only son of William Douglas, 2nd Earl of March, and his wife, Lady Anne Hamilton....
(1725–1810)
Marquesses of Queensberry from 1810 (cont. 1682)
- Charles Douglas, 6th Marquess of QueensberryCharles Douglas, 6th Marquess of QueensberryCharles Douglas, 6th Marquess of Queensberry, KT was a Scottish peer.Douglas was the first son and heir of Sir William Douglas, Bt, and his wife, Grace, née Johnstone. He inherited his father's baronetcy in 1783...
(1777–1837) - John Douglas, 7th Marquess of QueensberryJohn Douglas, 7th Marquess of QueensberryJohn Douglas, 7th Marquess of Queensberry , styled Lord John Douglas from May to December 1837, was a Scottish Whig politician....
(1779–1856) - Archibald William Douglas, 8th Marquess of QueensberryArchibald Douglas, 8th Marquess of QueensberryArchibald William Douglas, 8th Marquess of Queensberry PC , styled Viscount Drumlanrig between 1837 and 1856, was a Scottish Conservative Party politician...
(1818–1858) - John Sholto Douglas, 9th Marquess of QueensberryJohn Douglas, 9th Marquess of QueensberryJohn Sholto Douglas, 9th Marquess of Queensberry GCVO was a Scottish nobleman, remembered for lending his name and patronage to the "Marquess of Queensberry rules" that formed the basis of modern boxing, for his outspoken atheism, and for his role in the downfall of author and playwright Oscar...
(1844–1900) - Percy Sholto Douglas, 10th Marquess of Queensberry (1868–1920)
- Francis Archibald Kelhead Douglas, 11th Marquess of Queensberry (1896–1954)
- David Harrington Angus Douglas, 12th Marquess of QueensberryDavid Douglas, 12th Marquess of QueensberryDavid Harrington Angus Douglas, 12th Marquess of Queensberry is a Scottish nobleman.Queensberry is the elder son of the 11th Marquess, and his only son by his second wife, artist...
(b. December 19, 1929)
The heir apparent
Heir apparent
An heir apparent or heiress apparent is a person who is first in line of succession and cannot be displaced from inheriting, except by a change in the rules of succession....
is the present holder's son Sholto Francis Guy Douglas, Viscount Drumlanrig (b. 1967).
The heir apparent's heir presumptive
Heir Presumptive
An heir presumptive or heiress presumptive is the person provisionally scheduled to inherit a throne, peerage, or other hereditary honour, but whose position can be displaced by the birth of an heir or heiress apparent or of a new heir presumptive with a better claim to the position in question...
is his brother Lord Torquil Oberon Tobias Douglas (b. 1978).
Baronets, of Kelhead (26 February 1668)
- See Douglas BaronetsDouglas BaronetsThe Douglas of Glenbervie, Kincardine Baronetcy was created on 28 May 1625 in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia. The Douglas of Kelhead, Scotland Baronetcy was created 26 February 1668 in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia....
- Sir James Douglas, 1st Baronet (1639–1708)
- Sir William Douglas, 2nd Baronet (d. 1733)
- Sir John Douglas, 3rd Baronet (d. 1778)
- Sir James Douglas, 4th Baronet (d. 1783)
- Charles Douglas, 6th Marquess of QueensberryCharles Douglas, 6th Marquess of QueensberryCharles Douglas, 6th Marquess of Queensberry, KT was a Scottish peer.Douglas was the first son and heir of Sir William Douglas, Bt, and his wife, Grace, née Johnstone. He inherited his father's baronetcy in 1783...
(1777–1837)
See above for further succession