William Douglas, 1st Duke of Queensberry
William Douglas, 1st Duke of Queensberry PC (1637 – 28 March 1695), also 3rd Earl of Queensberry and 1st Marquess of Queensberry, was a Scottish politician.[1][2][3]
He was the son of
Earl of Queensberry in 1671 and took his seat in the Parliament of Scotland on 12 June 1672.[4]
Career
He was appointed a Scottish
Privy Council for both Scotland and England, but in 1687 he was accused of maladministration by James Drummond, 4th Earl of Perth
and was stripped of his appointments.
He assented to the accession of William and Mary and again enjoyed the royal favour before he died, being appointed Extraordinary Lord of Session in 1693.[5]
He acquired what is now known as Queensberry House on the Royal Mile in 1689 and died there.[6]
Personal life
He married Lady Isabel Douglas, daughter of William Douglas, 1st Marquess of Douglas and Lady Mary Gordon, in 1657, and they had issue:
- Lady Anne Douglas, Countess of Wemyss (died from injuries following her clothes going on fire, 23 February 1700)
- James Douglas, 2nd Duke of Queensberry (1662–1711)
- William Douglas, 1st Earl of March (died 9 September 1705), grandfather of the 4th Duke
- George Douglas
References
- ^ G. E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors. The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed., 13 volumes in 14 (1910–1959; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume X, page 694.
- ^ Record for William Douglas, 1st Marquess of Queensberry at www.thepeerage.com
- ^ Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900. .
- ^ Records of the Parliaments of Scotland, 1672/6/3. Date accessed: 5 October 2014.
- ^ public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Queensberry, Earls, Marquesses and Dukes of". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 22 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 730. This article incorporates text from a publication now in the
- ^ Cassell's Old and New Edinburgh