1975 - 2009 (34 years)
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Name |
Milo Douglas |
Prefix |
Lord |
Birth |
1975 |
Gender |
Male |
Death |
21 Jul 2009 |
Bayswater, London |
Person ID |
I13815 |
My Genealogy |
Last Modified |
17 Nov 2020 |
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Notes |
- LORD Milo Douglas who threw himself to his death from a tower block was the latest member of a troubled aristocratic family with a chequered history that has links to both Oscar Wilde and Osama Bin Laden
On a rainy night last month (July 2009) a 34-year-old charity worker named Milo Douglas climbed to the top of a block of council flats in central London and jumped off.
His body was found in front of Reading Tower on the Hallfield Estate, Bayswater, at 6.30am on July 21. It is believed he fell from the eighth floor of the nine-storey block.
It was the saddest of endings to a life that had long been troubled by manic depression ? and sadly only the latest incident in a trail of tragedy visited upon one of the oldest families in the land.
For Milo, a teacher turned outreach worker for the charity Action Against Hunger UK, was also Lord Milo Douglas, third son of the 12th Marquess of Queensberry.
Milo was not due to inherit the title, that will go to his older brother Sholto, Viscount Drumlanrig, 42.
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