Major-General George Douglas, 1st Earl of Dumbarton, KT was a Scottish military officer who spent much of his career in the service of King Louis XIV. In 1678, he returned to England; as a Catholic, h
Portrait by Henri Gascar
William Douglas, Duke of Hamilton (1634-1694); Dumbarton's elder brother
The duel; a common practice of the period, Dumbarton was so badly injured in one that his death was reported in October 1669
The 1678 Battle of Saint-Denis which ended the Franco-Dutch War and Dumbarton's employment by Louis XIV
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The Exclusion Crisis ran from 1679 until 1681 in the reign of King Charles II of England, Scotland and Ireland. Three Exclusion Bills sought to exclude the King's brother and heir presumptive, James,
George Douglas, 1st Earl of Dumbarton
…the Popish Plot, in which over 100 people were falsely accused of conspiracy to murder Charles; 22 were executed and this was followed by the 1678-1681 Exclusion Crisis. At the same time, the end of the Franco-Dutch War led to Dumbarton's regiment being discharged from the French army in June 1678; in January 1679, it…
c. 1673 portrait of the Duke of York by Henri Gascar
Engraving showing "A Solemn Mock Procession of the Pope" held in London on 17 November 1680. The Whigs arranged to have effigies of the Pope, cardinals, friars, and nuns paraded through the streets of the City of London and then burned in a large bonfire.
The Earl of Shaftesbury, the leader of the Whigs who introduced the Exclusion Bill in the House of Commons on 15 May 1679.