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- Sir Thomas Monteath, (1788– 1868), was an army officer in the East India Company, was born on 25 November 1788 at Hanover, Jamaica, the son of Thomas Monteath. He took the surname Douglas on 18 December 1850, on inheriting the estate of Douglas Support, which had been entailed to the descendants of his paternal grandmother by her sister Margaret, duchess of Douglas.
London Gazette Issue 21165 published on the 24 December 1850
Whitehall, December 18, 1850.
The Queen has been pleased to grant unto Thomas Monteath, Esquire, Companion of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Colonel of the 35th Regiment of Light infantry, in the service of the East India Company, on the Bengal Establishment, and one of Her Majesty's Aides-de-Camp, eldest son and heir of Thomas Monteath, late of Kingston, in the Island of Jamaica, who was second son of Walter Monteath, sometime of Kepp, in the county of Perth, Esquire, and Jean his wife, sister of Margaret, Duchess of Douglas, all deceased, Her Royal licence and authority that he and his issue, may in compliance with a clause contained in a certain disposition and deed of entail, bearing date the 31st day of December 1793, take and henceforth use the surname of Douglas, in addition to and after that of Monteath, and that he and they may bear the arms of Douglas quarterly in the first quarter, with those of Monteath, and that he, the said Thomas Monteath, may bear the designation of Monteath Douglas, of Douglas Support and Menteth, such arms being first duly exemplified according to the laws of arms, and recorded in the Herald's Office, otherwise the said royal licence and permission to be void and of none effect:
And also to command that the said royal concession and eclaration be registered in Her Majestyhs College of Arms.
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Abt 1810 - 1868 (58 years)