John Sholto Douglas, 9th Marquess of Queensberry was a British nobleman of the Victorian era, remembered for his atheism, his outspoken views, his brutish manner, for lending his name to the "Queensbe
Lord Queensberry in 1896
The Douglas Mausoleum outside Cummertrees Parish Church in Dumfries and Galloway, traditional burial place of the Marquesses of Queensberry
1877 caricature of Queensberry in Vanity Fair. Caption reads: "a good light weight".
John Douglas, 9th Marquess of Queensberry (1896)
Percy Sholto Douglas, 10th Marquess of Queensberry was a Scottish aristocrat.
John Douglas, 9th Marquess of Queensberry
…the Liberal Prime Minister, the 5th Earl of Rosebery. Lord Drumlanrig died from a gunshot wound, unmarried and without children. Douglas's second son, Lord Percy Douglas (1868–1920), succeeded to the peerage instead. Lord Alfred "Bosie" Douglas, his third son, was a close friend of famous author and poet Oscar Wilde…
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