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DOUGLAS 441 1684, and granted the same year (with a novodamus), together with the Dukedom of Queensberry [S.], which see.(*) DOUGLAS OF NEIDPATH, LYNE AND MANNERHEAD [OR MUNARD] Barony [S.] {Doug/as), cr. 1697, with the Earldom of March [S.], which see.(*') DOUGLAS OF BONKILL, PRESTOUN AND ROBERTOUN Barony [S.] (Douglas), cr. 1703, with the Dukedom of Douglas [S.], which see; extinct 1761. DOUGLAS OF AMESBURY BARONY. William (Douglas), Duke of Queensberry [S.], was, . _. 21 Aug. 1786, cr. BARON DOUGLAS OF AMES- 1- lysf' BURY, CO. Wilts.O He d. s.p., 23 Dec. 18 10, in his ° 86th year, when this dignity became extinct. See fuller particulars under "Queensberry," Dukedom of [S.], cr. 1684, sub the 4th Duke. DOUGLAS OF DOUGLAS BARONY. I. Archibald James Edward Douglas (formerly Stewart), of Douglas and Bothwell Castles, co. Lanark, I. 1 790. yr. s. of Sir John Stewart, 3rd Bart., of Grandtully, being 1st s. by his 2nd wife, Jane,('^) da. of James (Douglas), 2nd Marquess of Douglas, Earl of Angus, &c. [S.], and only sister of Archibald, Duke of Douglas [S.] abovenamed, was b. at the house of Madame le Brun, in the Faubourg St. Germain, Paris, 10 July 1748; cd. at Rugby from 21 June 1759, and afterwards at Westm. school; served h. of entail and provision to the said Duke, 9 Sep. 1761, when he took the name of Douglas in lieu of that of Stewart, but his claim to the Douglas estates (*) These dignities followed the course of the Dukedom {not the Marquessate) of Queensberry [S.], and, in 1810, became united with the Dukedom of Buccleuch [S.]. (*") These titles became united in 1778 with the Dukedom of Queensberry [S.], and on the death of the 4th Duke, in 1 810, with the Earldom of Wemyss [S.]. if) By this creation he ceased to be a Rep. Peer [S.], according to a somewhat anomalous resolution of the House of Lords. See vol. i, p. 7, note "b,"i«i Abercorn. ('*) C. K. Sharpe, in his Notebook, says that a picture at Newbattle shows her to be " pale, slight-looking, with blue eyes, and not pretty." V.G.