Sholto George Watson Douglas, 19th Earl of Morton
 Photograph from People's
Journal, 1928
Sholto George Watson Douglas was born November 5, 1844. In 1877 he wed Helen,
daughter of Charles, 2nd Baron de Mauley of Canford. He succeeded his father in
1884. He was a Deputy Lieutenant for the County of Argyll from May 1901.
He gained the rank of Lieutenant in the Midlothian Yeomanry.
He served as a Representative Peer from 1886 to his passing on October 8,
1935. His eldest son, Sholto Charles, Lord Aberdour, predeceased his father on
September 29, 1911, so the Morton honours passed to the 19th Earl's grandson.
Sholto George Watson Douglas, 19th Earl of Morton, was apparently a partner
in a coal mining operation in Spitzbergen.
The 1911 edition of Slater's Directory shows him as a landowner and resident
of Conaglen House in Ardgour, Argyllshire.
Additionally, he is shown has
having an address at the Carlton Club, SW London. His grandson, Ian
Douglas, married a Maclean of Ardgour in 1946.
From 1911 to 1913, he was the owner of the Leisure Craft,
Ramola, which he bought from the yacht
builders White Brothers Ltd, based in Southampton and sold it to Sir
Ralph St George Claude Gore, Baronet of Warsash, Hampshire on 28
February 1913.
He was designated managing owner of the
Majesta between 1913 and
1927. He purchased the yacht from Montague Grahame-White and sold it to
James Napier. It was renamed Majesta in 1910. It is listed on the war
memorial in Ardgour Kirk.
Lord Morton was 'Head Coast Watcher', 1914-1916; It seems likely he
used Majesta for this purpose off the west coast of Scotland.
He and the Countess are listed in a
memorial in Ardgour church
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'Fardy at Conaglen' -
thought to be the 19th Earl, from a family album. |
Notes:
1. Other vessels linked with the Earl are the Cressida RYS,
Latona (on which he travelled to Camp Morton
and at the time belonged to Sir John Whitaker Ellis) and Nardissa.
2. Archibald was a Royal Naval Volunteer
Reserve, late Leicestershire Imperial Yeomanry and Lovat's Scouts,
(1883-1971); Commissioned Second Lieutenant, Leicestershire Imperial
Yeomanry, 9.11.1901; Lieutenant, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve,
9.8.1916. He is listed on the Conaglen memorial as serving on HMS
Alsation.
3. Captain John Kendall from Falmouth, who was in command of Lord Morton's 199-ton steam yacht 'Cressida',
noticed that HMS Victorious, which was anchored at the mouth of the River Scaddle,
opposite Conaglen House,
and was the flagship of Admiral Francis Bridgeman, was saved from the rocks
by his actions.
See also:
• The Earls of Morton
• The
Earl and the Rev. Gardner, Spitzbergen and the Majesta [pdf]
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