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    John Sholto Douglas, 9th Marquess of Queensberry (20 July 1844 – 31 January 1900), was a British nobleman of the Victorian era, remembered for his atheism...
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    Helen Douglas Irvine (1880–1946) Charles James Sholto Douglas James Sholto Douglas (1757–1830) Sir James Dawes Douglas (1785–1862) Sir John Douglas (1836–1885)...
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    Marshal of the Royal Air Force William Sholto Douglas, 1st Baron Douglas of Kirtleside, GCB, MC, DFC (23 December 1893 – 29 October 1969) was a senior...
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    (1789–1858) Sholto John Douglas, 18th Earl of Morton (1818–1884) Sholto George Douglas, 19th Earl of Morton (1844–1935) Sholto Charles John Hay Douglas, 20th...
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    Percy Sholto Douglas, 10th Marquess of Queensberry (13 October 1868 – 1 August 1920) was a Scottish aristocrat. Born in Cummertrees, Dumfries, Scotland...
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  • Robert Sholto Johnstone Douglas (3 December 1871 – 10 March 1958), known as Sholto Douglas, or more formally as Sholto Johnstone Douglas, was a Scottish...
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    (1777–1837) John Douglas, 7th Marquess of Queensberry (1779–1856) Archibald William Douglas, 8th Marquess of Queensberry (1818–1858) John Sholto Douglas, 9th...
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    British mountaineer Lord Francis William Bouverie Douglas, Lady Gertrude Georgiana Douglas, John Sholto Douglas, Viscount Drumlanrig and later the 9th Marquess...
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    had an older sister, Lady Gertrude Georgiana Douglas (1842–1893); an older brother, John Sholto Douglas, Viscount Drumlanrig (1844–1900), later the ninth...
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  • Sholto Douglas, 17th Earl of Morton (23 December 1789 – 31 March 1858), known as George Douglas until 1827, was a Scottish Tory politician. Douglas was...
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    against John Sholto Douglas, the 9th Marquess of Queensberry for criminal libel. The Marquess was the father of Wilde's lover, Lord Alfred Douglas. The libel...
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    recorded usage of the word in this sense was in an 1894 letter by John Sholto Douglas, 9th Marquess of Queensberry, as read aloud at the trial of Oscar...
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    Gertrude Georgiana Douglas (who married Thomas Stock), John Sholto Douglas, 9th Marquess of Queensberry, Lord Francis William Bouverie Douglas, Reverend Lord...
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    1853 and 1856. Douglas was the son of John Douglas, 7th Marquess of Queensberry, by Sarah Douglas, daughter of Major James Sholto Douglas. He became known...
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    Poellnitz. His father was John Sholto Douglas (1838–1874), manager of a cotton mill, who died in a hunting accident when Douglas was about six. He spent the...
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  • Let's Get Married (1960) – Marsh The Trials of Oscar Wilde (1960) – John Sholto Douglas, Marquis of Queensberry Tarzan the Magnificent (1960) – Ames Fanny...
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  • in 1697 for Lord William Douglas, second son of the William Douglas, 1st Duke of Queensberry. He was also created Lord Douglas of Neidpath, Lyne and Munard...
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  • Scottish artist known as Sholto Douglas or Robert Sholto Johnstone Douglas Stan Douglas (born 1960), Canadian artist Stuart Douglas (born 1962), British...
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    of rules that was codified by John Graham Chambers of the Amateur Athletic Club and patronized by John Sholto Douglas, the 9th marquess of Queensberry...
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  • prize matches and amateur boxing under this new rule system when John Sholto Douglas, 9th Marquess of Queensberry, endorsed its use. The new rules had...
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    Lord Wemyss married Lady Anne Douglas, daughter of William Douglas, 1st Duke of Queensberry and sister of William Douglas, 1st Earl of March (see below)...
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    Walter Henry Montagu Douglas Scott, Earl of Dalkeith (1861–1886), eldest son of the 6th Duke, died unmarried John Charles Montagu Douglas Scott, 7th Duke of...
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  • and were the parents of: Sibyl Johnstone-Douglas (1870–1953), who died unmarried. Robert Sholto Johnstone-Douglas (1871–1958), who married Bettina Grisewood...
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    Queensberry (1831–1914) John Charles Montagu Douglas Scott, 7th Duke of Buccleuch, 9th Duke of Queensberry (1864–1935) Walter John Montagu Douglas Scott, 8th Duke...
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    and Douglas first met. Barney and Douglas eventually became close friends and Barney was named godmother to their son, Raymond Wilfred Sholto Douglas, born...
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  • of Douglas, Sholto. Gleaned from the works of Buchanan and Boece, Godscroft's narrative explains that during the reign of a King Solvathius, Sholto Douglas...
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  • John Charles Sholto Douglas, 21st Earl of Morton (19 March 1927 – 5 March 2016) was a Scottish peer and landowner. Douglas was the son of Hon. Charles...
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  • Sholto Henry McClellan was 8th Lord Kirkcudbright, from 1801 to 1827. The son of John MacLellan, 7th Lord Kirkcudbright, and Elizabeth Bannister, he was...
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  • Sholto George Watson Douglas, 19th Earl of Morton, DL (5 November 1844 – 8 October 1935) was a major landowner in Scotland, a businessman with mining investments...
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    Douglas, 16th Earl of Morton, KT, FRS, FRSE, FSA (3 April 1761 – 17 July 1827) was a Scottish peer and politician. He was the son of Sholto Douglas,...
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