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	MARCH (TOWN) - LoveToKnow Article on MARCH (TOWN) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In 1675 Charles conferred the titles of duke of Richmond and Lennox and earl of March on Charles Lennox, his natural son by Louise de Keroualle, duchess of Portsmouth, from whom the earldom of March has descended to its present holder the duke of Richmond and Gordon.
		The title of earl of March in the peerage of Scotland, by another creation, was conferred in 1697 on William Douglas, second son of William, ist duke of Queensberry.
		Dying unmarried in i8io, the several titles of the duke passed to different branches of the house of Douglas.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /M/MA/MARCH_TOWN_.htm (995 words)

	Duke of Queensberry - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The title Duke of Queensberry was created in the Peerage of Scotland in 1684 along with the subsidiary title Marquess of Dumfriesshire for the 1st Marquess of Queensberry.
		The Dukedom was held along with the Marquessate of Queensberry until the death of the 4th Duke (and 5th Marquess), when the Marquessate was inherited by Sir Charles Douglas of Kelhead, 5th Baronet, while the Dukedom was inherited by the 3rd Duke of Buccleuch.
		In 1708 the 2nd Duke was created Duke of Dover (along with the subsidiary titles Marquess of Beverley and Baron Ripon) in the Peerage of Great Britain, but these titles became extinct upon the death of the 3rd Duke in 1778.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Duke_of_Queensberry (203 words)

	James Douglas, 2nd Duke of Queensberry - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		James Douglas, 2nd Duke of Queensberry and 1st Duke of Dover (18 December 1662–6 July 1711), was a Scottish nobleman.
		He was the eldest son of William Douglas, 1st Duke of Queensberry.
		He was created Duke of Dover, Marquess of Beverley and Earl of Ripon in 1708, and appointed to the British Privy Council in the same year.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/James_Douglas,_2nd_Duke_of_Queensberry (278 words)

	Duke (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In the United Kingdom, the current royal dukes are HRH the Prince of Wales, who is Duke of Cornwall and Duke of Rothesay; HRH the Duke of Edinburgh (Prince Philip), HRH the Duke of York (Prince Andrew), HRH the Duke of Gloucester (Prince Richard), and HRH the Duke of Kent (Prince Edward).
		Under the 20 November 1917 Letters Patent of King George V, the titular dignity of Prince/Princess and the style Royal Highness are restricted to the sons of a Sovereign, the sons of a Sovereign's sons, and the eldest living son of the eldest son of a Prince of Wales.
		For example, when the current Duke of Gloucester and Duke of Kent are succeeded by their eldest sons, the Earl of Ulster and the Earl of St. Andrews, respectively, those peerages (or rather, the 1928 and 1934 creations of them) will cease to be associated with royalty.
	www.theezine.net /d/duke.html (969 words)

	Other Buccleuch Houses
		The property belonged to the Duke of albemarle and was acquired by Ralph, 1st Duke of Montagu, through his marriage to Elizabeth Dowager Duchess of Albemarle, in 1692.
		Inherited by the 3rd Duke of Buccleuch in 1794 from his mother, Lady Caroline Campbell, the eldest of the co-heiresses of the 2nd Duke of Argyll.
		In 1731-3 John, 2nd Duke of Montagu, 'erected a large and substatial house with outhouses and appurtenances thereto belonging', with the assistance of Henry Flitcroft (1697 - 1769).
	www.boughtonhouse.org.uk /htm/others/houses.htm (1214 words)

	Douglases and Drumlanrig continued - Drumlanrig Castle and The Douglas Family (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Duke William died in 1695 and was succeeded by his son, James, remembered as "The Union Duke" for his role in the drawing up of the Act of Union in 1707.
		Charles, the 3rd Duke, who succeeded his father in 1711, seems to have been of a sympathetic and cultured nature, and an understanding consort to his brilliant wife, Katherine Hyde, the patroness of John Gay and sponsor of the latter's "Beggars Opera".
		It was fortunate that Duke Henry's public spirited grandson, Walter Francis, 5th Duke of Buccleuch and 7th of Queensberry, should have been such a vigorous agriculturist with a keenly developed economic sense, for he embarked on an ambitious programme of replanting woodlands devastated by "Old Q", and modernising farmsteads.
	www.buccleuch.com /pages/content.asp?PageID=205 (1042 words)

	Bosie
		Queensberry's atheism became more radical as the years passed: asked as one of the Scottish representative peers in the House of Lords to swear the oath of allegiance to God and the Queen, he refused, saying he would not take part in such `Christian tomfoolery' and that his word should be enough.
		Queensberry was attracted to her great beauty: she was delicate and vulnerable-looking, which in many men would stir feelings of protectiveness, though not, as it turned out, in Queensberry.
		Lady Queensberry had put her son down for Eton some time before he was of the age to enter the school, but when Queensberry heard of his wife's plan, he deemed it inappropriate that he had not been consulted and refused to give his consent.
	partners.nytimes.com /books/first/m/murray-bosie.html (7149 words)

	1695 - 1714 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		According to Lockhart, the Duke of Queensberry was at the bottom of this sham plot, but he appears really to have been entirely innocent, and to have acted all along for what he thought the best interests of the government.
		The Dukes of Hamilton and Athole were now desirous of pushing on the inquiry into the alleged plot, but by advice of the Cavaliers, who insisted that such a proceeding would be a violation of the agreement entered into between them and the Duke of Queensberry’s friends, they desisted for a time.
		The Dukes of Hamilton and Athole vindicated themselves against the charge of being accessory to Fraser’s proceedings, and the latter particularly, in a long speech, reprobated the conduct of the Duke of Queensberry, whom he openly accused of a design to ruin him.
	www.electricscotland.com /HISTORY/genhist/hist54.html (5511 words)

	Regency Personalities - Old Q (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Despite the fact that he was a rich duke, and he proposed three times, her father, Sir Joshua Vanneck, could not bring himself to accept the hand of an aging unrepentant old roue, who was by this time 61 years old.
		On the day of the race the duke went to the circle to review the horses before the race, and on seeing this horse, declared it was a fine looking animal and he would ride it himself.
		J H Jesse writing in 1843 (33 years after the death of the duke, remembered that in London there was an almost universal prejudice against drinking milk because of the suspicion that it might have been sold from the duke, and been used for his baths.
	homepages.ihug.co.nz /~awoodley/regency/oldq.html (2037 words)

	Robert Burns Country: The Burns Encyclopedia: Douglas, William, third Earl of March and fourth Duke of Queensberry ...
		Queensberry was Lord of the Bedchamber to George III from 1760 to 1789.
		In 1795, the Duke stripped the woodlands around Drumlanrig Castlle and Neidpath Castle in Peebleshire, to find money for a dowry for Maria Fagniani, whom he fancied was his daughter, when she married the Earl of Yarmouth.
		Queensberry was a liberal patron of Italian opera, although, it was said, more out of interest in the prima donnas and dancers than in the music.
	www.robertburns.org /encyclopedia/DouglasWilliamthirdEarlofMarchandfourthDukeofQueensberry151OldQ15117241511810.296.shtml (1120 words)

	Scotsman.com News - Politics - Hannibal lecture
		Nearly 300 years ago, on the day the Act of Union between Scotland and England was passed in 1707, the demented son of the Duke of Queensberry escaped from his room in Queensberry House, killed the kitchen boy, roasted him on a spit and ate him.
		Queensberry House was built in 1667 for Dame Margaret Douglas of Balmakellie.
		The second Duke of Queensberry, who served as Lord High Treasurer, Keeper of the Privy Seal and the King’s Commissioner to the Scottish Parliament, played a key part in agreeing the Treaty of Union with England.
	news.scotsman.com /politics.cfm?id=503532004 (871 words)

	Earl of Selkirk (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		He outlived his son and heir and the titles created with the Earl of Ruglen was passed onto his daughter Anne Hamilton, 2nd Countess of Ruglen and through her marriage to the families of the Earl of March and the Duke of Queensberry.
		His son Thomas Douglas (1771-1820) and grandson Dunbar James Douglas (1809-1885) succeeded him but upon the 6th Earl's death the title Earl of Selkirk devolved upon the 12th Duke of Hamilton, given special remainder this meant that the title was inherited by the 12th Duke's younger brother, Charles George Douglas-Hamilton (1847-1886).
		He renounced the title Earl of Selkirk in order to remain in the House of Commons, he was later elevated to the House of Lords with a life peerage as Baron Selkirk of Douglas.
	www.1-free-software.com /en/wikipedia/e/ea/earl_of_selkirk.html (502 words)

	Regency Personalities - Georgiana - Duchess of Devonshire
		She remained in constant correspondence with her mother throughout her life and the early letters show some signs of her mother's uneasiness at Georgiana's malleable nature and the influences she was allowing herself to be drawn under, such as Charles Fox, the renowned politician and gambler.
		The fourth Duke of Devonshire had been both politically ambitious and astute, his son did not inherit these energies or ambitions he was a man of few words who was happiest at home with his dogs, a habit that in the Devonshire house set earned him the nickname of 'Canis'.
		So when the Duchess and Bess decided to travel to Paris in 1789 and the future sixth Duke of Devonshire was born there, it aroused gossip that the child was perhaps the love child of Bess and the Duke, and not in fact the Duchess's at all.
	homepages.ihug.co.nz /~awoodley/regency/devon.html (1261 words)

	The Scottish Parliament Excavation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Similarly, when it was later purchased and expanded by William, 1st Duke of Queensberry and his son and successor, James, their motivation was at least partly political.
		The desire among the nobility to have a residence in or near Holyrood Palace was based on both practical considerations: the need to be close to the seat of power, and on considerations of status and prestige.
		Queensberry was almost a direct replacement for Lauderdale in James VII's administration; however, he quickly fell from favour and it was in the context of this political failure that he purchased Queensberry House.
	www.holyroodarchaeology.org /QH/QHpol.html (656 words)

	Clan Campbell Society (NA) - Campbell Chiefs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Duke and Duchess of Argyll at Inveraray Castle
		The 13th Duke of Argyll is the son of Sir Ian Campbell, 12th Duke of Argyll and Iona Mary Colquhoun, the daughter of Sir Ivar Iain Colquhoun of Luss 8th BT, Chief of Clan Colquhoun.
		The Duke of Hamilton (1644) and Brandon (1711): The Chief of Clan Hamilton
	www.ccsna.org /mcm.htm (1416 words)

	Significant Scots - John Erskine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Accordingly, knowing it was gratifying to the queen, Marr stood up openly for Sacheverel, defended his absurdities, and along with the notorious Jacobites, the duke of Hamilton, the earl of Wemyss, and Northeske, voted for his acquittal.
		Argyle, to recommend himself to the queen and her peace-pursuing ministry, depreciated the services and undervalued the talent of the duke of Marlborough, hoping that some of the honours and a few of the places which that great man enjoyed, might be in the issue conferred upon himself.
		The duke of Hamilton followed, and the sudden death of the queen herself completed the ruin of the project.
	www.electricscotland.com /HISTORY/other/erskine_john3.htm (4353 words)

	Travels in Scotland : Neidpath Castle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		It was sold to the Duke of Queensberry in 1686 and given to his son, the Earl of March.
		It was partially repaired and sold to the Douglas Duke of Queensberry in 1686.
		The Duke allowed the estate to fall into ruin by cutting down the ornamental trees and allowing the gardens to be overgrown.
	www.phouka.com /travel/castles/neidpath/neidpath.html (360 words)

	Durisdeer Feature Page on Undiscovered Scotland
		This is explained by Durisdeer's role as parish kirkton for Drumlanrig, covering the castle and large estates of the Dukes of Queensberry to the north west.
		Part of the answer for lies in west end of the church, which was built as a two storey session house and retiring rooms for the Duke of Queensberry.
		On the back wall is the large marble memorial to the Second Duke of Queensberry and his wife Mary, which was erected in 1713.
	www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk /durisdeer/durisdeer (723 words)

	canongate kirk: history (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		One prayer desk was given by four dukes of Scotland in 1950: the Duke of Hamilton, the Duke of Buccleuch, the Duke of Queensberry and the Duke of Argyll.
		Opposite is a stall presented in the same year by the Duke of Roxburgh because the Roxburghs were the ‘superiors’ of the Canongate from the Reformation until 1636.
		The Duke of Buccleuch also gave a mediaeval wooded painted panel from his chapel at Bowhill which forms the back of the Beadle’s seat and also, opposite, a three seater bench with carved cherubs - a splendid piece of carving, lively, interesting and uplifting.
	www.canongatekirk.com /history-page4.html (397 words)

	Court threat in fox hunting ban - Evening Times (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		As the pro-hunting lobby was in Edinburgh revealing details of a legal challenge to the Bill passed last night, 40 riders from the Duke of Buccleuch Hunt gathered at St Boswells in the Borders.
		The Duke of Buccleuch Hunt, one of the oldest in Scotland, was established in 1826.
		It's patron, the 9th Duke of Buccleuch and 11th Duke of Queensberry, is one of the UK's biggest landowners, living at Bowhill House in Selkirk.
	www.eveningtimes.co.uk /print/news/5001493.shtml (326 words)

	Bookreporter.com - SET IN DARKNESS by Ian Rankin
		Queensberry House itself would be saved, but the more recent additions either side of it were going.
		The Duke of Queensberry was Secretary of State.
		Queensberry House was unreal to him, the idea of a parliament itself a dream of some mad god: 'But Edinburgh is a mad god's dream/Fitful and dark...' He'd found the words at the opening to a book about the city.
	www.bookreporter.com /reviews/0312977891-excerpt.asp (3218 words)

	Features - Scottish Food, Traditions and Customs - Drumlanrig Pudding (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Drumlanrig Castle was completed in 1689 for William Douglas, 1st Duke of Queensberry, and was described by Daniel Defoe, author of 'Robinson Crusoe', as a 'palace'.
		The 1st Duke of Queensberry is said to have spent only one night in the castle as did Prince Charles Edward Stewart in 1745.
		On the death of the 4th Duke Drumlanrig Castle passed to the Duke of Buccleuch.
	www.scotsindependent.org /features/food/drumlanrig.htm (574 words)

	Drumlanrig Castle, Gardens & Country Park, , Thornhill, DG3 4AQ - www.stately-homes.com
		William, 3rd Earl of Queensberry, who built the present Drumlanrig, was born in 1637; in November 1684 he was created first Duke of Queensberry.
		Charles, the 3rd Duke, who succeeded his father in 1711, seems to have been of a sympathetic and cultured nature.
		Built up by the Dukes of Buccleuch and Queensberry, the collection is on display much of the year and visitors to the Castle are afforded the opportunity to view works from this collection during a tour of the principal rooms.
	www.stately-homes.com /areas/details.asp?HID=390&ID=2143&path=12,13,62,2143 (808 words)

	AllRefer.com - Murray, John, 2d marquess and 1st duke of Atholl (British And Irish History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Murray, John, 2d marquess and 1st duke of Atholl[mUr´E, ath´ul] Pronunciation Key, 1660–1724, Scottish nobleman; son of the 2d earl and 1st marquess.
		A supporter of William III, he held high government posts in Scotland and was created duke in 1703.
		He successfully weathered a plot against him by Simon Fraser, Baron Lovat, and James Douglas, 2d duke of Queensberry.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/M/MurrayJ-md.html (253 words)

	AllRefer.com - Lovat, Simon Fraser, 11th Baron (British And Irish History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		He then abducted her mother, widow of the 9th baron, and forced her to marry him, for which he was outlawed in 1701.
		He returned to Scotland in 1703 to join James Douglas, 2d duke of Queensberry, in plotting against John Murray, 2d marquess and later 1st duke of Atholl, brother of the aunt he had abducted.
		When the plot failed he fled abroad and was imprisoned by the exiled Jacobites for betraying them to the English in an attempt to regain his estates.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/L/Lovat-Si.html (371 words)

	Witchery Tours: Extract from "Edinburgh's Historic Mile" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		nlaid in the cobbles, near the statue of the 7th Duke of Queensberry, lies an unusual heart motif, accompanied by the figures 1430, 1386 and 1610 stamped in brass blocks.
		The Tolbooth itself could be a place of execution, and by a cruel twist the first to ascend the scaffold here was a young bouy caught robbing the house of none other than the Duke of Queensberry, who forever gloats upon the spectacle nearby.
		Years after the demolition of the prison in 1817, the Heart was laid within an outline of the building marked by brass plates, as a memorial to the countless hearts of the condemned which doubtless hammered their last with dread and nausea.
	www.witcherytours.com /extract2.html (496 words)

	Overview of Queensberry House (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Built in 1681, it was bought by the 1st Duke of Queensberry in 1686 to provide him with an Edinburgh residence.
		It is best remembered as the site of the incident whereby James Douglas, the lunatic Earl of Drumlanrig (1697 - 1715), eldest son of the 'Union' Duke of Queensberry, escaped confinement to roast and devour a kitchen-boy in 1707 on the same evening his father was signing the Act of Union.
		More recently Queensberry House became a geriatric hospital, which closed in 1995 and then was redeveloped (1999-2004) to incorporate it into the new parliament being built to the east and south.
	www.geo.ed.ac.uk /scotgaz/features/featurefirst3890.html (307 words)

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