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  William Sholto Douglas, 1st Baron Douglas of Kirtleside - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In 1942 Douglas was replaced at Fighter Command by Leigh-Mallory and was transferred to Egypt, becoming commander of the RAF in the Middle East in 1943.
Douglas returned to England in 1944 to head Coastal Command during the invasion of Normandy.
Douglas was well rewarded after the war, he was the first commander of the British Occupation Zone in Germany and he was made 1st Baron Douglas of Kirtleside in 1946 and promoted to Air Marshal of the RAF.
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 Sholto Douglas biography .ms   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Air Marshal William Sholto Douglas (1893 - 1969) was educated at Tonbridge and Oxford.
In 1936 Douglas moved to the Air Ministry and by early 1940 he was Deputy Chief of the Air Staff.
Douglas believed that fighters should operate in large numbers and became embroiled in the Big Wing controversy with Dowding, whom he replaced as head of RAF Fighter Command in November 1940.
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 The Black Douglas's
It is therefore suggested that William of Douglas married Freskin of Kerdal's sister.
William returned to Scotland shortly before the Battle of Durham, when Scotland was in sore need of a strong man. Like Good Sir James he drove the English out of his own country of Galloway and then out of all Scotland with the aid of his fellow countrymen.
It was not he, but William the Knight of Liddesdale who entered into traitorous negotiations with the English at this time, and this may be the reason that the Earl subsequently killed his Uncle, the Knight of Liddesdale, who had been his Godfather and tutor.
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 Douglas Coat of Arms
The members of the current generation of the Douglas family have inherited a name that was first used hundreds of years ago by the people of the ancient Scottish tribe called the Picts.
The Douglas family lived in Moray (part of the modern region of Grampian), where the family has a long and distinguished history dating back to early times.
Whatever their early true origin, the Douglas Clan was one of the more distinguished and illustrious clans.
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 William Sholto Douglas   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
In 1944 Douglas was Commander in Chief of Coastal Command during the invasion of Normandy, where his main objective was to clear the English Channel of German naval opposition
After the Second World War Douglas became Commander in Chief and Military Governor of the British Occupation Zone in Germany and in January 1946 was knighted and promoted to marshal of the RAF.
Douglas retired from active duty in 1948 and was awarded a peerage as 1st Baron Douglas of Kirtleside.
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 William Shield - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation William Shield   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
William Shield (March 5, 1748 – January 25, 1829) was an English composer, violinist and violist.
Shield was first taught music by his father, but after both he and his mother died while Shield was still a child, he was apprenticed to a ship-builder in South Shields, continuing to study with Charles Avison in Newcastle upon Tyne.
There has been some suggestion that a melody in the overture to Shield's opera Rosina is the source of the tune to Robert Burns's "Auld Lang Syne", although this is contested, with the general belief being that both Shield and Burns took the tune from an old folk song.
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Douglas Bader, who was knighted in 1976, died in 1982.
Douglas Bader was shot down by the German ace, Adolf Galland, on 9th August, 1941.
Douglas Bader, the son of a soldier killed in the First World War, was born in London in 1910.
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 The Education Forum > Battle of Britain   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Sir Douglas Bader was one of the key figures in getting Dowding removed, resulting in the temporary triumph air wing approach of having large numbers of planes in the air in advance of an attack, with the decisions about which targets to attack being largely handed over to the pilots in the air.
During the Battle of Britain Dowding was criticized by Air Vice Marshal William Sholto Douglas, assistant chief of air staff, and Air Vice Marshal Trafford Leigh-Mallory, for not being aggressive enough.
Douglas took the view that RAF fighters should be sent out to meet the German planes before they reached Britain.
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 John Sholto Douglas, 9th Marquess of Queensberry - Wikpedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
John Sholto Douglas (1844-1900) was an eccentric Scottish nobleman, the 9th Marquess of Queensberry and Viscount Drumlanrig.
He was a famous patron of sport and a noted boxing enthusiast; he was one of the founders of the Amateur Athletic Club in 1860.
He had married the daughter of Alfred Montgomery, and his title passed to his son Percy Sholto Douglas.
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 Findon Village Antiquities www.findonvillage.com - Fox Down's Last Days   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
The first part of the burial service, conducted by the Reverend William Dennis Allen, Vicar of Findon, was held in the village at St. John the Baptist Church.
In Edwin Douglas' will, dated 24th April 1913, (witnessed by Emma Jane Hoad the laundress and Lily Hewlett the Cook both of Fox Down), he appointed his sons William Bruce and James Sholto to be his executors.
William Sholto Bruce Douglas (Edwin's son) late of 111 Rouge Bouillon, St. Helier bequeathed this clock to La Société Jersiaise, Jersey Museum in 1989.
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 John Sholto Douglas, 9th Marquess of Queensberry biography .ms   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
He is remembered for lending his name to the "Marquess of Queensberry rules" that formed the basis of modern boxing.
He inherited the Queensberry title in 1858 from Archibald William Douglas.
In March 1895 the Marquess was sued for defamatory libel by Oscar Wilde, who Douglas had intimated was a "somdomite" (sic): Douglas made the accusation because he was angered over Wilde's relationship with his son, Alfred.
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 thePeerage.com - Person Page 3624
     Maurice William Sholto Douglas was born on 31 December 1919.
     Roderick Olaf William Sholto Douglas was born on 24 August 1953.
She is the daughter of Ronald George Sholto Douglas and Margaret Jean Gai Eliott-Drake McClure.
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 "D" Famous People   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Douglas, Gawain or Gavin (c.1474-1522) Poet and bishop, born in Tantallon Castle, East Lothian, E Scotland...
Douglas, Lord Alfred (Bruce) (1870-1945) Poet, born in Ham Hill, Worcester, Hereford and Worcester, WC England...
Douglas, William O(rville) (1898-1980) Judge and writer, born in Maine, Minnesota, USA.
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 thePeerage.com - Person Page 3623
She is the daughter of Peter Fredeic Sholto Douglas and Ursula Rivers.
     William Hew Sholto Douglas was born on 5 April 1947.
She is the daughter of Ian Fitz Roy Sholto Douglas and Heather Joan MacLean.
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 Findon Village Antiquities www.findonvillage.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Edwin Douglas kept his paint brushes in the top full-width drawer when it was at Fox Down.
His son, William Sholto Bruce Douglas bequeathed this piece of furniture to La Société Jersiaise, Jersey Museum in 1989.
Edwin Douglas died in 1914 and very soon after this Fox Down was sold and finally demolished.
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 The Aerodrome Forum - Sholto Douglas
William Sholto Douglas was born in Headington, Oxfordshire, on 23rd December 1893.
Air Chief Marshal Charles Portal, the new chief of the air staff, agreed with Douglas and in November 1941, he removed Keith Park and Hugh Dowding from their posts; Douglas took over from Dowding as head of Fighter Command.
In 1944 Douglas was Commander in Chief of Coastal Command during the invasion of Normandy, where his main objective was to clear the Channel of German naval opposition.
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 EDMUND FORTE.
Air Chief Marshal Charles Portal, the new chief of the air staff, had agreed with Trafford Leigh-Mallory and William Sholto Douglas in their dispute with Keith Park and Hugh Dowding during the Battle of Britain.
William Sholto Douglas now developed what became known as the Big Wing strategy.
Fighter Command, now under the leadership of Air Marshal William S. Douglas, began to be used to escort light bombers over Europe.
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 Hugh Dowding : Dowding
However, Air Chief Marshal Charles Portal[?], the new chief of the air staff, had agreed with William Sholto Douglas and Trafford Leigh-Mallory[?] in the dispute with Dowding over tactics and in November 1941, he removed Dowding from his post.
Douglas had the added satisfaction of taking over from Dowding as head of Fighter Command.
Dowding was then sent on special duty in the United States for the Ministry of Aircraft Production before retiring from the Royal Air Force in July, 1942.
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 Biographies - C   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
This work tells the saga of the Douglas families as they grew in power and influence, but remained locked in a bitter feud.
From the murder of the "Black" James Douglas by James II, through to the murder of James III by the "Red" Douglases, there was much that was cruel and inhuman in the history of these two great families.
Yet, there were also acts of selflessness, as when a young Douglas woman tried desperately to save the life of James I and when a young Douglas man rescued Mary Queen of Scots from Loch Leven prison.
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Douglas Gene Boyer - Doug is a research hydrologist with the U. Department of Agriculture.
Douglas Van Howd, Douglas Van Howd - Nevada born sculptor and painter, has become well-known worldwide for his wildlife and western art creations, including sculptures, statues, monuments, figurines, bronzes and castings.
James Douglas (1675—1742), Scottish physician and anatomist, and physician to the Queen.
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 Family Tree Maker's Genealogy Site: Outline Descendant Tree: Descendants of WILLIAM I "the Bastard"
32 [3599] William Hew Sholto Douglas b: 1947..............................................................................................
31 [3582] Ronald George Sholto Douglas b: 1926...........................................................................................
33 [3636] Michael Charles Sholto Douglas b: 1984...........................................................................................
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 U.S. Repositories Listing - C - D
General William Mitchell's campaign for strengthening military aviation and Charles Lindbergh's solo flight to Paris provide focal points for many accounts of this period.
The clipping file also contains one large folder of NASA brochures and photographs from Skylabs I, II, and III and from Apollos 12 and 13, and a copy of a sermon by a Dallas minister, which was carried to the moon by one of the astronauts on Apollo 12.
Included are letters relating to the military career of William Rivers Pope, covering his part on the stratosphere flight sponsored by the National Geographic Society and the Army Air Corps (1934-1935).
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 User:TwoOneTwo:   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
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 Bambi bei eLexi - das Onlinelexikon   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
William Stokoe (pronounced Stokie) is a linguist who reasearched American Sign Language (ASL) extensively while he worked at Gallaudet University.
William Morris Davis (February 12, 1850 - February 5, 1934) was an American geographer, geologist and meteorologist, often called the "father of American geography".
Wild card: In playing card terms, a wild card is a card that can be assigned any value its holder desires.
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 Douglas, John Sholto on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
see Queensberry, John Sholto Douglas, 8th marquess of.
The princess and the playboy; Following his suicide at 36, Robin Douglas-Home's intimate photographs of his friends and lovers, including Princess Margaret,Jackie Kennedy and wife Sandra, lay hidden for years.
The story of the miner's son who dreamed of becoming a...
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 Family Tree Maker's Genealogy Site: Outline Descendant Tree: Descendants of WILLIAM I "the Bastard"
33 [3582] Ronald George Sholto Douglas b: 1926.................................................................................................
35 [3636] Michael Charles Sholto Douglas b: 1984.................................................................................................
*3rd Wife of [3582] Ronald George Sholto Douglas:.................................................................................................
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 Project Constant Endeavour :: Endgame   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
A measure of the success now being gained in the fight to overcome the submarine menace may be gained from the fact that the monthly average loss of merchant ships in 1942 of 520,000 tons had fallen to about 130,000 tons by the end of 1943.
On 20 January 1944 Slessor, who was appointed Deputy Allied Air Commander in the Mediterranean, gave up Coastal Command to Air Chief Marshal Sir William Sholto Douglas.
At this stage there were at sea about 60 U-boats, while Coastal Command possessed some 430 operational aircraft at home (now including rocket-equipped Mosquitoes, and indeed some Mosquitoes with 6-pdr (57-mm) guns for anti-submarine attack).
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 Alibris: Sholto Douglas
by Hart, Robert A., and Sholto Douglas, James, and Douglas, J. Sholto
Years of combat; the first volume of the autobiography of Sholto Douglas.
by Wilde, Oscar, and Queensberry, John Sholto Douglas, Marquis of, and Taylor, Alfred, and Hyde, H. Montgomery, and London (England).
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National Army Museum, Department of Archives, Photographs, Film and Sound, Royal Hospital Road, Chelsea, London, SW3 4HT (63) Collects papers relating to the British Army and earlier formations from the 15th-20th cent, with a strong emphasis on the 18th and 19th centuries.
Holds private papers of British Army Officers including; General Sir William John Codrington (NRA 20819), Field Marshall Sir George Nugent (NRA 20793), Lord Fitzroy Somerset, 1st Baron Raglan (NRA 20794), Lt-General Sir James Outram (NRA 35498) and General Henry Seymour Rawlinson, Baron Rawlinson of Trent (NRA 18642).
In addition the museum holds a large collection of personal papers and memoirs of service by individual soldiers; regimental records including the 9th/12th Royal Lancers, Westminster Dragoons, the Surrey Yeomanry and Middlesex Regiment; also records of the Women's Royal Army Corps and the Royal Army Educational Corps; organisational records including the United Service Club.
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