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DOUGLAS 439 22 Jan. 1735/6, aged 62, at Edinburgh, and was bur. at Holvrood House. Funeral entry of both at Lyon Office. [James Douglas, styled F.aki. of Angus, ist s. and h. ap. by ist wife, b. 1671, having raised in 1689 a regiment of 1,800 men (since called the 26th Foot, or Cameronians), was appointed Colonel thereof. He d. v.p. and unm., being slain 3 Aug. 1692, in his 21st year, at the battle of Steinkirk.] [William Douglas, styled Earl of Angus, 2nd but ist surv. s. and h. ap., being ist s. of the 2nd wife; b. 15 Oct. 1693; d. v.p., in infancy, 20 May 1 694, and was bur. at Douglas.] III. 1700. 3 and I. Archibald (Douglas), Marquess of Douglas [1633], Earl of Angus [1389 and 1633], DUKEDOM [S.] Lord Abernethy and Jedburgh Forest [1633], in the Peerage of Scotland, yst. and only surv. s. and h., L 1703 by 2nd wife, bap. 13 Oct. 1694, j/j/c^'Earl of Angus to till 1700. He was, in consideration of his ancestry, cr. 1761. ioApr.i703,DUKEOFDOUGLAS,MARQUESS OF ANGUS AND ABERNETHY, VISCOUNT OF JEDBURGH FOREST and LORD DOUGLAS OF BONKILL, PRESTOUN AND ROBERTOUN [S.]. Lord Lieut, of co. Forfar 1 7 1 5-6 1 . He aided the Government in the Rising of 1 7 1 5, and served, as a Volunteer, at the battle of Sheriffmuir, 13 Nov. 1715. Hew., i Mar. 1758, at Douglas Castle, Margaret, ist da. of James Douglas (formerly Campbell), of Mains, co. Dunbarton, by his ist wife, Isabel, da. of Hugh Corbet, of Hardgray. He d. s.p., at Queensberry House, Edinburgh, 2 1 July, and was bur. 4 Aug. 1 761, at Douglas, aged 66, when the Dukedom of Douglas and the other titles granted therewith in 1 703 became extinct, but the honours he had inherited ditYolved on his cousin and h. male as stated below.(^) His widow d. 24 Oct. 1774, at Bothwell Castle, co. Lanark.C') (^) In 1725 he either murdered, or accidentally killed, John Ker (illegit. son of his brother-in-law. Lord Mark Ker), who was staying with him at Douglas Castle. Immediately after this event the Duke fled to Holland. See Eraser's Douglas Book, vol. ii, p. 467, and Wodrow's Analtcta, vol. iii, p. 208. On the abolition of heritable jurisdictions in 1747 he received over ^^5,000 as compensation for various Scottish regalities. "A person of the most wretched intellects — proud, ignorant, and silly; passionate, spiteful, and unforgiving. He possessed a handsome form." (MS. Notebook of C. K. Sharpe). In Dec. 1758 Douglas Castle was burnt down, being afterwards rebuilt by the Duke after designs of the architect Adam. His estates appear to have been chiefly in Lanarkshire, in which county both Bothwell Castle and Douglas Castle were situated. These castles, at one time the inheritance of the Earls of Douglas (the hlack Douglas), were granted by the Crown, to which they had become forfeited, to the Earls of Angus (the red Douglas) ancestors of the Duke. On his death they devolved on his sister's son, the heir of line, who was cr. Baron Douglas of Douglas in 1790. See that dignity. G.E.C. and V.G. (•") "Good-looking, though not handsome, with an eccentrick and coarse manner (not devoid of wit), a manly courage, and most enterprising temper." (C. K.