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John Sholto Douglas, 9th Marquess of Queensberry (20 July 1844 – 31 January 1900), was a British nobleman of the Victorian era, remembered for his atheism, his outspoken views, his brutish manner, for lending his name to the "Queensberry Rules" that form the basis of modern boxing, and for his role in the downfall of the Irish author and playwright Oscar Wilde.
William Douglas, 1st Earl of Queensberry (c. 1582 – 8 March 1639/40) was a Scottish noble. He was the eldest son of James Douglas, 8th of Drumlanrig and his wife Mary Fleming. He inherited his father's title, as 9th Laird of Drumlanrig, in October 1615. [ 1 ]
The subsidiary titles of Lord Queensberry are: Earl of Queensberry (created 1633), Viscount Drumlanrig (1628) and Lord Douglas of Hawick and Tibbers (1628), all in the peerage of Scotland. He is also a Scottish baronet , styled "of Kelhead", created 26 February 1668, so the 6th Marquess was the 5th Baronet.
James Douglas, 3rd Marquess of Queensberry (2 November 1697 – 24 January 1715), known until 1711 as James Douglas, Earl of Drumlanrig, was a Scottish nobleman, the second son, and eldest to survive infancy, of James Douglas, 2nd Duke of Queensberry. Stories describe him as an "imbecile" and violently insane.
Lord Alfred Bruce Douglas (22 October 1870 – 20 March 1945), also known as Bosie Douglas, was an English poet and journalist, and a lover of Oscar Wilde. At Oxford University he edited an undergraduate journal, The Spirit Lamp , that carried a homoerotic subtext, and met Wilde, starting a close but stormy relationship.
Memorial to the 7th Marquess of Queensberry (3rd row, 2nd from left) outside the Douglas Family Mausoleum, Cummertrees. John Douglas, 7th Marquess of Queensberry (1779 – 19 December 1856), styled Lord John Douglas from May to December 1837, was a Scottish Whig politician.
Charles Douglas, 6th Marquess of Queensberry, KT (March 1777 – 3 December 1837), known as Sir Charles Douglas, 5th Baronet between 1783 and 1810, was a Scottish peer and member of Clan Douglas. [ 1 ]
Born in Cummertrees, Dumfries, Scotland, he was the second son of the 9th Marquess of Queensberry and brother of Lord Alfred Douglas, the lover of Oscar Wilde.From the death of his elder brother Francis in 1894 until his father's death in 1900, he was styled Viscount Drumlanrig.