Charles Douglas, 6th Marquess of Queensberry
Charles Douglas, 6th Marquess of Queensberry, , known as Sir Charles Douglas, 5th Baronet between 1783 and 1810, was a Scottish peer and member of Clan Douglas.
Douglas was the eldest son and heir of Sir William Douglas, 4th Baronet, and his wife, Grace, née Johnstone, of Lockerbie. Upon his father's death in 1783, he inherited the baronetcy of Kelhead. On 13 August 1803, he married Lady Caroline Scott, the third daughter of Henry Scott, 3rd Duke of Buccleuch; they had eight daughters. His daughter Anne married the English Tory MP Thomas Charlton Whitmore, and his daughter Harriet was married to Augustus Duncombe, who was Dean of York from 1858 to 1880.In 1810, he succeeded his fourth cousin once removed, William Douglas, 4th Duke of Queensberry, as Marquess of Queensberry. Upon simultaneously inheriting Kinmount House, he commissioned a new house to be built by the English architect Sir Robert Smirke, which served as the seat for subsequent Marquesses of Queensberry and still stands. From 1812 to 1832, he was a representative peer for Scotland. He was made a Knight of the Thistle in the 1821 Coronation Honours and created Baron Solway, of Kinmount, in the County of Dumfries, in 1833, which granted him an automatic seat in the House of Lords. From 1831 to 1837, he served as Gentle of the Bedchamber to George IV, a position which a member of Clan Douglas had occupied intermittently since the late seventeenth century. As Marquess of Queensberry, Douglas also acted as Lord Lieutenant of the County of Dumfries, Colonel of the Dumfries Militia and director of the Royal Scottish Academy.
After a period of ill health, Queensberry died at his home at St James's Place, London in December of 1837. The marquessate and baronetcy passed to his brother, John Douglas, 7th Marquess of Queensberry, while the barony of Solway became extinct.
