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    George 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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    William Douglas, 7th Earl of Morton (1582 – 7 August 1648) was a grandson of the 6th Earl of Morton. He was Treasurer of Scotland, and a zealous Royalist...
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    George Douglas, 13th Earl of Morton (1662–1738) James Douglas, 14th Earl of Morton (1702–1768) Sholto Douglas, 15th Earl of Morton (died 1774) George...
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    James Douglas, 4th Earl of Morton (c. 1516 – 2 June 1581) was a Scottish nobleman. He played a leading role in the murders of Queen Mary's confidant,...
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  • Archibald Douglas, 8th Earl of Angus and 5th Earl of Morton (1555 – 4 August 1588) was a Scottish aristocrat. He was the son of David, 7th Earl of Angus....
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  • Thumbnail for Agnes Leslie, Countess of Morton
    She was the wife of William Douglas, 6th Earl of Morton, who as Laird of Lochleven Castle was the custodian of Mary, Queen of Scots during her captivity...
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    Countess of Morton, also called Joanna (c. 1428 – 22 June 1493), was the daughter of James I, King of Scotland, and the wife of James Douglas, 1st Earl of Morton...
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    Catholic. He took part in the plot which led to the execution of James Douglas, 4th Earl of Morton in 1581 and in the conspiracy which saved King James VI from...
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  • of Angus (1469–1513) George Douglas, 13th Earl of Morton (1662–1738), younger brother of the 12th Earl of Morton George Douglas, 16th Earl of Morton (1761–1827)...
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  • George Gordon, 4th Earl of Huntly (1514 – 28 October 1562) was a Scottish nobleman. He was the son of John Gordon, Lord Gordon, and Margaret Stewart,...
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    William Douglas, 10th Earl of Angus (1554 – 3 March 1611) was a Scottish nobleman. He was the son of William Douglas, 9th Earl of Angus (1533–1591). He...
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  • Thumbnail for James Stewart, 1st Earl of Moray
    Stewart, 1st Earl of Moray (c. 1531 – 23 January 1570) was a member of the House of Stewart as the illegitimate son of King James V of Scotland. At times...
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  • Thumbnail for James Hamilton, Duke of Châtellerault
    Arran married Margaret Douglas, who was about ten years older than him. She was a daughter of James Douglas, 3rd Earl of Morton, and Catherine Stewart...
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    Duchess) and her heirs male. George Douglas, an illegitimate son of William Douglas, 1st Earl of Douglas, was created Earl of Angus on 9 April 1389. His...
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  • Thumbnail for George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen
    George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen KG, KT, PC, FRS, FRSE, FSA Scot (28 January 1784 – 14 December 1860), styled Lord Haddo from 1791 to 1801...
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  • Thumbnail for John Lambton, 1st Earl of Durham
    John George Lambton, 1st Earl of Durham, GCB, PC (12 April 1792 – 28 July 1840), also known as "Radical Jack" and commonly referred to in Canadian history...
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    Fair of 1808, she came to the attention of George Douglas, the Earl of Morton, who went on to sponsor her to receive lessons from a Royal Academy of Arts...
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    Borsselen in 1444. Joan of Scotland, Countess of Morton (c. 1428–1486) married James Douglas, 1st Earl of Morton. Alexander Stewart, Duke of Rothesay (born and...
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  • Thumbnail for James Douglas of Spott
    James Douglas of Spott (died 1615) was a Scottish landowner and conspirator. He was a son of James Douglas, 4th Earl of Morton, the Regent Morton. He was...
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    son of The 1st Marquess of Abercorn. His mother, Harriet, was the second daughter of The Hon. John Douglas, himself the son of The 14th Earl of Morton. His...
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  • Thumbnail for Agnes Douglas, Countess of Argyll
    Lady Agnes Douglas was born at Lochleven Castle, Scotland, in 1574, one of the eleven children of Sir William Douglas, 6th Earl of Morton, and Agnes Leslie...
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    Dalkeith Palace (category History of Midlothian)
    sister, Marjory, who was married to Sir William Douglas. James Douglas of Dalkeith became the Earl of Morton in the mid 15th century. The castle was strategically...
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  • Thumbnail for Archibald Campbell, 1st Marquess of Argyll
    Earl of Argyll, by his first wife Agnes Douglas, daughter of William Douglas, 6th Earl of Morton, and was educated at St Andrews University, where he matriculated...
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    Margaret, daughter of James Stewart, Earl of Moray Elizabeth, daughter of William Douglas, 6th Earl of Morton By his third wife Elizabeth Douglas he had five...
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    daughter of James Douglas, 3rd Earl of Morton. She descended from James IV through an illegitimate daughter, and Joan, daughter of James I. Both parents...
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    John George Edward Henry Douglas Sutherland Campbell, 9th Duke of Argyll (6 August 1845 – 2 May 1914), usually better known by the courtesy title Marquess...
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  • James Hepburn, 4th Earl of Bothwell for the assassination of Darnley, and acted as the agent between them and the Earl of Morton. According to the on-the-scaffold...
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    Lieutenant General Douglas Mackinnon Baillie Hamilton Cochrane, 12th Earl of Dundonald, KCB, KCVO (29 October 1852 – 12 April 1935), styled Lord Cochrane...
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    of his guardian, the 4th Earl of Morton, four days before his marriage to Margaret Douglas, formerly Lady Buccleuch and daughter of the 7th Earl of Angus...
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  • Townshend, 3rd Viscount Sydney 1835–1837: George Douglas, 17th Earl of Morton 1835–1837: Thomas Taylour, 2nd Marquess of Headfort 1835–1837: Arthur Chichester...
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