David Douglas, 12th Marquess of Queensberry

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David Harrington Angus Douglas, 12th Marquess of Queensberry (born 19 December 1929) is a Scottish nobleman.

Queensberry is the elder son of the 11th Marquess, and his only son by his second wife Cathleen Sabine Mann (married 1926, divorced 1946). He succeeded his father in 1954.

Educated at Eton College, he was Professor of Ceramics at the Royal College of Art from 1959 until 1983. He is a Member of the Council of the Crafts Council, was President of the Design and Industries Association from 1976 to 1978, is a Fellow of the Chartered Society of Designers (and recipient of the Minerva Medal, the Society's highest award), and was Senior Fellow of the Royal College of Art from 1990.

[edit] Personal life

Queensberry has been thrice married; firstly in 1956 (div 1969) to Anne Jones, by whom he had two daughters; secondly in 1969 (div 1986) to Alexandra Mary Clare Wyndham Sich, by whom he had three sons (the eldest born during his first marriage) and one daughter; and thirdly in 2000 to Hsueh-Chun Liao, by whom he has a daughter (legitimated by marriage).

Issue:

1. (illegitimate) Ambrose Carey (b. 1961), see below.
2. Sholto Francis Guy Douglas, Viscount Drumlanrig (born 1 June 1967), legitimated by decision of Lord Lyon when his parents married.
3. Lord Milo Douglas (b. 1975)
4. Lord Torquil Douglas (b. 1978)
5. Lady Emma Douglas (b. 1956)) married 1986 Damon Lewis Vincent Heath, and has issue
6. Lady Alice Douglas (b. 1965) married 1995 Simon Melia, and has issue.
7. Lady Kate Douglas (b. 1969) married 1999 Tom Weisselberg, and has issue.
8. Lady Beth Douglas (b. 1999), legitimated 2000 by her parents' marriage.

None of his sons are married.

Queensberry has an eldest but illegitimate son, Ambrose Jonathan Carey (b. 1961), head of a British security and intelligence firm, whose half-sister Caroline Carey (b. 1959), an English art student, married the late Salem bin Laden, prior head of the global Bin Laden family corporation.^[1][2] Carey is married since 1995 to Christina Weir, a daughter of the late Sir Michael Scott Weir KCMG (1925-2006) and his first wife Alison Walker.^[3] They have issue two sons: Angus Carey-Douglas and James Carey-Douglas.^[4] Since Ambrose is illegitimate, he and his two sons are not in remainder to the Marquessate and subsidiary titles.

Queensberry has several siblings. By his father's first wife, he has an elder half-sister Lady Patricia Douglas, whose daughter Countess Emma de Bendern was the first wife of gossip columnist Nigel Dempster. He has a late sister Lady Jane Cory-Wright (1926-2007), twice married to David Arthur Cory-Wright, of the Cory-Wright Baronets. He has a younger half-brother Lord Gawain Douglas (b. 1948) who is married with issue, one son and five daughters.

[edit] Succession to the marquessate

The heir apparent to the marquessate is Viscount Drumlanrig (b. 1967), followed by his two brothers Lords Milo and Torquil Douglas. The next heir is their half-uncle Lord Gawain Douglas, who has a son (also unmarried). The next three elderly heirs, descended from the fourth and youngest son of the 9th Marquess, are unmarried or have no sons. These represent all the male-line heirs of John Sholto Douglas, 9th Marquess of Queensberry (1844-1900).

[edit] References

[edit] Sources

• Memorial Service: Sir Michael Weir, The Times, 22 September 2006.
• Paul Theroff (2007). Descendants of King Henry VII of England: Part 8, last updated November 2007.

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