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Douglas, 14th Duke of Hamilton
Born 3 February 1903 London
Died 1973
Married 2 December 1937 St.Giles, Edinburgh
Lady Elizabeth Ivy Percy, daughter of Alan Ian Percy, 8th
Duke of Northumberland and Lady Helen Magdalen
Gordon-Lennox. She died September 2008, aged 92.
Born 25 May 1916 Westminster
Children,
- 1 Angus Douglas-Hamilton
15th Duke of Hamilton, 12th Duke of Brandon
Born 13 September 1938 London
Married (1) 23 June 1972 Div.1987
Sarah Jane Scott, daughter of Sir Walter Scott, 4th Baronet
and Diana Mary Owen
Born 1945
Married (2) 1988
Jillian Robertson, daughter of Noel Robertson
Children,
- 2 Lord James Alexander
Douglas-Hamilton
(11th Earl of Selkirk) Baron Selkirk of Douglas
Born 31 July 1942 Dungavel
Married 1974
The Hon. Priscilla Susan Buchan, daughter of John Norman
Stuart Buchan, 2nd Lord Tweedsmuir and Hon. Priscilla Jean Fortescue Thomson
Born 22 August 1949
Children,
- 3 Lord Hugh Malcolm Douglas-Hamilton
Born 22 August 1946 North Berwick
Died 21 June 1995
Married (1) 1971 Annulled 1991
June Mary Curtis
Married (2) 1994
Sheilagh Ellis
Children,
- 4 Lord Patrick George Douglas-Hamilton
Born 2 August 1950 Lennoxlove
Married 1989 Div.1997
Cecilia Usher
Children,
- 5 Lord David Stephen Douglas-Hamilton
Born 27 December 1952 Lennoxlove
Died 6 April 2020 - from coronavirus Covid-19
He was unmarried.
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28th May 1955: Douglas Hamilton (1903-1973), the 14th Duke of
Hamilton, 11th Duke of Brandon, and Lord High Commissioner to the
General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, with his wife and five sons
at his Scottish seat, Lennoxlove, Original Publication: Picture Post -
7786 - A Gallery Of Famous Scots 6 -The Duke Of Hamilton - pub. 1955
(Photo by Malcolm Stroud/Picture Post/Getty Images)
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First flight over Mount Everest
3rd April 1933
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On 3rd April 1933, two Scots pilots became the first to make a flight
over Mount Everest, the highest mountain on earth. Royal Air Force
Lieutenant David McIntyre and Douglas Douglas-Hamilton MP, Marquess of
Douglas and Clydesdale each piloted an open-cockpit biplane.
Douglas-Hamilton was the 14th Duke of Hamilton, born in London in
1903. He developed interests in flying during the early 1920s, becoming
a Squadron Commander in the Auxiliary Air Force (1927-36). As an aside,
he was involved in the flight of Rudolf Hess during World War II. Hess,
Adolf Hitler's deputy, flew to Scotland on the 10th May 1941, heading
towards Douglas-Hamilton's home at Dungavel Castle in an attempt to
involve the Duke in negotiating peace between Germany and Britain.
Churchill was not persuaded and Hess spent the rest of his life in
prison. The Duke died in 1973.
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Douglas Douglas-Hamilton, 14th Duke of Hamilton, in 1924  Arms of the 14th Duke can be found in the Apple House, at Haddington House
 Memorial to the 14th Duke and his Duchess in the gardens of Haddington House
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