styled 1698-1706 Lord Charles Douglas; cr. 17 June 1706 earl of Sallway [Solway] [S]; suc. fa. 6 July 1711 as 3rd duke of Queensberry [S] and 2nd duke of DOVER
Never sat.
b. 24 Nov. 1698, 3rd but 2nd surv. s. of James Douglas, 2nd duke of Queensberry and duke of Dover, and Mary (d. 2 Oct. 1709), da. of Charles Boyle, 2nd Baron Clifford of Lanesborough. educ. Christ Church, Oxford 1716 (tutor Mr. John White);1 DCL 1720; travelled abroad, Netherlands, Italy 1717-18. m. 10 Mar. 1720, Catherine, da. of Henry Hyde†, 4th earl of Clarendon, and Jane (d. 1777), da. of Sir William Leveson Gower, 4th bt., sis. of John Leveson Gower, Bar. Gower, 2s. d,v,p. d. 22 Oct. 1778. Will pr. 1778.
Lord of bedchamber 1720-7; ld. lt. Dumfries and Kirkcudbright 1721; vice-adm. [S] 1722-9; PC 31 May 1726; commr. of claims, coronation, 1727; gent. of bedchamber to Prince of Wales 1733-51; capt.-gen R. coy archers 1758-d.; keeper, great seal [S] 1761-3; ld. justice gen. [S] 1763-d.
FRS 8 Nov. 1722.
Associated with Edinburgh, Dumfriesshire, Scotland; London.
Likenesses: oil on canvas by T. Hudson, National Galleries of Scotland, PG 2166; oil on canvas by J. Wootton, 1740 (group portrait, with Frederick, Prince of Wales and John Spencer, Royal Coll.
Queensberry succeeded his father to a British peerage whilst a minor. The story of his attempts to take his seat will be told in the next phase of this work.
S.N.H.- 1 Christ Church, Oxford, Wake mss 20, ff. 72-73.