George Sholto, was son of
Hon. John Douglas and Frances Lascelles and the grandson of
James,
14th Earl of Morton by his second wife, was born December 23, 1789.
He inherited the Morton titles after the death of his half-cousin
without issue. He married Frances T. Rose, daughter of The
Right Honourable Sir George H. Rose, G.C.H., who bore him 11 children.
Of his five sons, one succeeded as Earl, one became an Admiral of the
Royal Navy, one the Vicar of St. Paul's Worcester, and another rose to
the Bishopric of Aberdeen and Orkney.
George Sholto devoted his
own life to diplomatic service.
He was HM Secretary of
Legation in Sweden, 1812-1815, and Secretary of Legation, Prussia, in
Berlin, 1816-1823 and sometime also Secretary of Legation at Florence.
He was the sword bearer on the occasion of
King George IV accepting the keys to
Holyrood
He married, 3rd July 1817, Frances Theodora Rose.
Children:
Sholto John
Douglas b: 13 APR 1813 later 18th Earl of Morton
Admiral George Henry Douglas b:
5 OCT 1821
Rev. Henry Douglas b:
12 DEC 1822
Edward William Douglas b: 19 OCT 1825
Arthur Gasciogne Douglas b: 5 JAN 1827
Frances Harriet Douglas
born 1819 in Berlin
Ellen Susan Anne Douglas
Harriet Bridget Emily Douglas
Alice
Louisa Douglas
Gertrude Jane Douglas (1)
Agnes
Charlotte Douglas
A painting of him and his siblings can be viewed
here>>>
He died 31st March 1858.
Notes:
1. On 6
October 1860 in St Johns, Edinburgh, Hon. Mark George Kerr Rolle
(1835–1907) (born Mark George Kerr Trefusis), of Stevenstone, St Giles
in the Wood, Devon, married Lady Gertrude Jane Douglas (1838-1924) a
daughter of George Sholto Douglas, 17th Earl of Morton (d.1858). Rolle
produced no male progeny, thus the entail male under Lord Rolle's will
precluded his daughters from the Rolle inheritance. His two daughters
were:
Gertrude Emily Rolle, who married Brig.-Gen. Sir Hugh Henry John
Drummond, 1st Baronet (1859–1924) of Lasswade, a younger son of Sir
James Williams-Drummond, 3rd Baronet, of Hawthornden. She had 1
daughter.
Mary Frances Rolle (died 1945), who married on 7 June 1894
Major Arthur Scott Brown (b.1866) of Buckland Filleigh, North Devon. She
had 2 daughters. |
