Person Douglas; Charles (1698 - 1778); 3rd Duke of Queensberry and 2nd Duke of Dover Douglas Charles 3rd Duke of Queensberry and 2nd Duke of Dover Douglas, Charles, Earl of Solway, Viscount Tibberis and Lord Douglas 1698 - 1778 British Male Edinburgh, Scotland 24 November 1698 London 22 October 1778 Burial: Durrisdeer, Dumfriesshire
Amesbury, Wiltshire
Education: Christ Church, Oxford (matriculated 1714); DCL (1720) Career: Travelled on the Continent (1711-1718); Lord of the Bedchamber to George I (1720-1727); Lord Lieutenant of Dumfriesshire and Kirkcudbrightshire (1721); Vice-Admiral of Scotland (1722-1729); Privy Councillor (1726-1728, 1760); Gentleman of the Bedchamber to Frederick, Prince of Wales (1733-1751); Captain General of the Royal Company of Archers (1758-death); Keeper of the Great Seal of Scotland (1761-1763); Lord Justice General for Scotland (1763-death); died of mortification in the leg following an accident when alighting from his carriage Honours: Earl of Sallway [Solway], Viscount Tibberis and Lord Douglas of Lockerbie, Dalveen and Thornhill 1706 Son of James Douglas, 2nd Duke of Queensbury and 1st Duke of Dover, and his wife, Mary, daughter of Charles Boyle, Viscount Dungarvan (FRS 1664), by his first wife, Jane, daughter of William Seymour, Duke of Somerset; succeeded his father (his elder brother, though living, being an idiot) (1711); married Catherine, daughter of Henry Hyde, 4th Earl of Clarendon, and his wife, Jane, daughter of Sir William Leveson-Gower, Bart, of Lilleshall; brother-in-law of Francis Scott, 2nd Duke of Buccleuch (FRS 1724); his children predeceased him and the Dukedom of Queensbury devolved upon a distant cousin, William Douglas, Earl of March Fellow 08/11/1722 Sources: Bulloch's Roll; DNB; GEC; Foster References: 'Gentleman's Magazine' 1778, p496 Notes: Succeeded to his father's honours in July 1711. Proposed by James Douglas International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) - Ottawa 1996 ISBN 0-9696035-3-3 National Council on Archives, Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997 24 Nov 1698 - 22 Oct 1778 NA8388 21/11/2001 Andyg Pmab 28/03/2023 RS_NET\JonathanB Yes 3e5dfd3b-a456-4a76-b8e1-b62e25afe23e