A history of the house of Douglas from the earliest times down to the legislative union of England and Scotland . ceeded him as Countess of Ruglen,and married William Douglas, Earl of March,second son of the ist Duke of Oueensberry[Ixxxii.]. The eldest son of this marriage wasWilliam Douglas, 4th Duke of Queensberry,popularly known as old O., at whose death in1810 the earldom of Ruglen expired, and thedukedom of Oueensberry passed, with the baronyand lands of Drumlanrig, to the 3rd Duke of Buc-cleuch, whose great-grandson now holds them as6th Duke of Buccleuch and Sth Duke of Queens-berry. But
A history of the house of Douglas from the earliest times down to the legislative union of England and Scotland . ceeded him as Countess of Ruglen,and married William Douglas, Earl of March,second son of the ist Duke of Oueensberry[Ixxxii.]. The eldest son of this marriage wasWilliam Douglas, 4th Duke of Queensberry,popularly known as old O., at whose death in1810 the earldom of Ruglen expired, and thedukedom of Oueensberry passed, with the baronyand lands of Drumlanrig, to the 3rd Duke of Buc-cleuch, whose great-grandson now holds them as6th Duke of Buccleuch and Sth Duke of Queens-berry. But while the dukedom and estates ofOueensberry thus passed to the 3rd Duke ofBuccleuch as nearest heir-general, the marquessateof Oueensberry was claimed by his son-in-law. SirCharles Douglas of Kelhead, as heir-male of theDouglases of Drumlanrig, and has descendedthrough him to the present holder, Percy Sholto,9th Marquess of Oueensberry. Returning to John, 3rd Earl of Selkirk and1st Earl of Ruglen [Ixix.], at his death in 1744,the earldom of Selkirk passed to his grand-nephew, Dunbar Hamilton of Baldoon, who. Edmund Fttzmaurice, yth Earl of Orkney, etc. CHILDREN OF THE 3^° DUKE 205 assumed the additional surname of Douglas onbecoming 4th Earl of Selkirk. He had sevensons, of whom the three elder bore the secondtitle of Lord Daer in succession, and died with-out issue ; the three next in succession also diedbefore their father, and the seventh, Thomas Ham-ilton-Douglas, succeeded as 5th Earl of died in 1820, and was succeeded by his onlyson, Dunbar-James, 6th Earl of Selkirk, uponwhose death without issue in 1885 the earldomreverted to the Duke of Hamilton. (5) George, created Earl of Orkney [ in 1696,ixx. George ^^^o married Elizabeth, eldest daughter ofDougrias, ist Sir Edward Villiers, Knight-marischal ofOrkney, ob. England, and sister of the ist Earl of3- Jersey. The earldom of Orkney was granted to all heirs whatsoever of the ist earlsbody, and it is remark
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