Archibald Douglas, 13th of Cavers
Archibald Douglas, 13th of
Cavers came from an ancient Roxburghshire family with a strong
Covenanting tradition. He was the heritable sheriff of Teviotdale
Roxburghshire and sat in the 1st parliament of Great Britain in
1707-8. He was the Member of Parliament for Dumfries burghs 1727-34.
His father William Douglas 11th of Cavers had been deprived of
the hereditary sheriffdom on account of his opposition to the court,
and his mother, Katherine Rigg the reputed 'good Lady Cavers', was
imprisoned in Stirling Castle in November 1682. She was only
released permanently in December 1684, when, upon being given the
choice of conforming or leaving the country, she took up residence
in England.
The family's status naturally revived with the
Revolution, whereupon the heritable jurisdiction of Roxburghshire
was restored.
Douglas succeeded his elder brother, William, to
the sheriffdom and the estate of Cavers in 1698. He was
Receiver-general for Scotland 1705-18 and postmaster-general in
1725.
Prior to the Union of Scotland and England (1701),
Douglas had been able to return himself as one of Roxburghshire's
four
representatitves to the Scottish parliament. In his
electoral capacity, he consistently opposed the Rosburghe interest
both in the Scottish and British Parliaments. Repeated successes
prompted his son William to remark with pardonable exaggeration in
1712 that "you have it in your hands to make the Member for the
county."
He died in 1741.
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