Jane married William (1st Earl of March) Douglas in 1693. William (son of William (1st Duke of Queensbury) Douglas and Lady Isabel (of Douglas) Douglas) was born about 1665; died on 2 Sep 1705. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Anne (Countess Ruglen) Hamilton. Anne (daughter of John (3rd Earl of Selkirk) Douglas-Hamilton and Anne (of Cassillis) Kennedy) was born on 5 Apr 1698; died on 21 Apr 1748. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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MP for Peebleshire 1822-1832
Died unmarried

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Died unmarried

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Rev Edward Buncle was paid 1 guinea to proclaim the banns for lady Jean.The guinea by a person " Henry MacNeill" It is possible that she married an Armstrong.

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Born in Peebles, the only son of William, second Earl of March, and his wife, Lady Anne Hamilton, he succeeded his father to the Earldom of March in 1731 and his mother to the Earldom of Ruglen in 1748.

He was appointed a Knight of the Thistle in 1761 and was a Scottish representative peer from 1761. He was Vice Admiral of Scotland from 1767 to 1776. He was Lord Lieutenant of Dumfries from 1794 until 1810.

He succeeded his cousin Charles as Duke of Queensberry in 1778, and was created Baron Douglas of Amesbury in the Peerage of Great Britain in 1786.

A friend of the Prince of Wales, he was appointed Lord of the Bedchamber to George III in 1760. During the King's illness in 1788, Queensberry went to great lengths to assess the probability of recovery. However, he made a wrong decision, recommended a regency and supported the Prince of Wales's claim to full sovereign powers. On the King's recovery, he was dismissed on the instance of the Queen and Pitt.

Queensberry was the largest landlord in Nithsdale, and although Burns sent him a copy of The Whistle with a fulsome letter dated 24 September 1791, the poet loathed him, as is shown by these lines:

All hail, Drumlanrig's haughty Grace -
Discarded remnant of a race
Once godlike, great in story!
His forbears virtues all contrasted -
The very name of Douglas blasted
His that inverted glory!
"Hate, envy, oft the Douglas bore;
But he has superadded more
And sunk them in contempt!
Follies and crimes have stained the name,
But, Queensberry, thine the virgin claim,
From aught that's good exempt!
In 1795, the Duke stripped the woodlands around Drumlanrig Castle and Neidpath Castle in Peebleshire, to find money for a dowry for Maria Fagniani, whom he fancied was his daughter, when she married the Earl of Yarmouth. This action incurred the immediate wrath of Burns, and the later wrath of Wordsworth. Burns was said to have inscribed his Verses on the Destruction of the Woods near Drumlanrig on the back of a window shutter in an inn or toll house near the scene of the devastations. In this poem, the wandering poet meets the 'genius of the stream', and asks if the destruction has been caused by some 'bitter Eastern blasts', but is told:

'Nae eastling blast', the sprite replied,
'It blew na here sae fierce and fell,
And on my dry and halesome banks
Nae canker-worms get leave to dwell:
Man! Cruel man!' the genius sighed -
As through the cliffs he sank him down -
'The worm that gnawed my bonny trees,
That reptile wears a ducal crown'.
Queensberry was a liberal patron of Italian opera, although, it was said, more out of interest in the prima donnas and dancers than in the music. Latterly known as Old Q., he was notorious for his escapades and dissolute lifestyle and was a member of the Hellfire Club. He endeavoured to develop horse racing into a science. In later years he sold his house at Newmarket and lived at Cholmondeley House, Richmond upon Thames, where he collected pictures and objets d'art.

Finally, he was largely confirmed to his house in Mayfair (Queensberry House). In his last infirmity, he employed the former physician to Louis XV, Pere Elisee, who was to be paid a large sum for every day his patient was kept alive, but nothing from the moment he died.

Raikes, in his Journal, said of 'Old Q': He was a little sharp-looking man, very irritable, and swore like ten thousand troopers. Mackenzie, in Anecdotes and Egotisms claimed that he was a disciple of Epicurus but without the virtue of the Epicurean system; and he had none of the hypocrisy of pretending to virtue or disinterestedness.

Although he had a number of illegitimate children, he never married, and his titles were dispersed on his death. The dukedom of Queensberry, with some other titles and Drumlanrig Castle, passed to the third Duke of Buccleuch, in whose family they remain.

The earldom of March passed to his kinsman, Francis, 8th Earl of Wemyss.

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Last Will: Popularly known as "Old Q," this remarkable eccentric was one of the richest men in England. When he was 84, his solicitors begged him to write his will. Instead he retired to his bed for several weeks to recover from such a horrible suggestion. At last persuaded, he began to write his will on Jan. 16, 1809, and found it such a pleasant experience that he continued adding, deleting, amending, and altering it until just a few days before his death on Dec. 23, 1810. He reveled in the delight of promising friends bequests, then a few days later cutting their names out of the will. Sleepless nights made him particularly fussy and he would alter pages, but in the morning he would cross out his corrections and keep his old bequests. At the end there were 34 codicils, and nearly everybody he ever met or knew was a beneficiary--including the Chevalier d'Eon and Emma Hamilton. The total legacy amounted to pounds 1,400,000. The one person he left out was his apothecary. Queensberry said that for every day he lived, he would pay the man well--but would not leave him an added penny in his will. The apothecary stayed by Old Q's bedside 1,215 nights and was indeed paid extremely well, but he secretly believed Old Q would also leave him something in his will. When he learned the rascally duke was faithful to his word, the irate apothecary sued--and was awarded Pound 7,500 "compensation."

Family/Spouse: Fagniani. was born about 1725; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Francis, first Marquis of Hertford, who had been active in Irish affairs, for example in 1765 he was constituted Viceroy of Ireland, and he frequently visited his estates. Under his patronage many new buildings were erected in Lisburn, and considerable improvements were made on the land so that the rent roll was more than doubled. His son, the second Marquis who was named after his father, also visited the Irish estates but during one of these visits his son, then the Earl of Yarmouth, married the illegitimate daughter of the Duke of Queensbury by an Italian singer and dancer in a clandestine service in Southampton. This union, while it greatly augmented the Earl's coffers by some ?500,000 on the death of the Duke in 1810 in return for giving his daughter a respected name and rank in society, was merely "one of convenience on both sides". But it exasperated and scandalised the second Marquis who viewed it as a "deplorable misalliance" As a result by his father's will, the third Marquis only received that property which legally could not be alienated from him. This included the Irish estates worth some ?57,000 annually and estates in Warwickshire valued at ?15,000 in Sudbourne at ?10,000 and in Scotland at ?3,000. In addition to these were houses and investments worth approximately ?20,000 a year. Thus "not without truth was Lord Hertford considered one of the four wealthiest peers in the country" Yet, in spite of the fact therefore, that the largest part of his annual income was derived from his Irish estates, the Marquis never saw them. He was a profligate with a reputation of being "the most thoroughgoing rove in the kingdom" and spent almost all of his life on the continent.

Maria married Francis (3rd Marquess of Hertford) Seymour-Ingram on 18 Mar 1798. Francis (son of Francis (2nd Marquess of Hertford) Seymour-Ingram and Isabella Anne Ingram Shepherd Irvine) was born on 11 Mar 1777; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]