Charles Douglas, 3rd Duke of Queensberry

Charles Douglas, 3rd Duke of Queensberry

Charles Douglas, 3rd Duke of Queensberry, 2nd Duke of Dover, PC (1698–1778) was a Scottish nobleman.

The son of James Douglas, 2nd Duke of Queensberry, 1st Duke of Dover, and Mary Boyle, daughter of Charles Boyle, 3rd Viscount Dungarvan, was a Privy Counsellor and Vice Admiral of Scotland.[1]

He took up the cause of John Gay when a licence for his opera Polly was refused in 1728. He quarrelled with George II and resigned his appointments in the same year. He was a founding governor of the Foundling Hospital, created in 1739. He was appointed Keeper of the Great Seal of Scotland in 1761 and was Lord Justice General from 1763 to 1778.

He was created Lord Douglas of Lockerbie, Dalveen and Thornhill, Viscount of Tiberris and Earl of Solway on 17 June 1706, these titles becoming extinct on his death.[2]

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Political offices
Preceded by
Earl of Rothes
Vice Admiral of Scotland
1722 – 1729
Succeeded by
Earl of Stair
Preceded by
Earl of Islay
Keeper of the Great Seal of Scotland
1761 – 1763
Succeeded by
Duke of Atholl
Legal offices
Preceded by
Marquess of Tweeddale
Lord Justice General
1763 – 1778
Succeeded by
Earl of Mansfield
Peerage of Scotland
New title Lord Douglas of Lockerbie, Dalveen and Thornhill
1706 – 1778
Extinct
Viscount of Tiberris
1706 – 1778
Earl of Solway
1706 – 1778
Preceded by
James Douglas, 2nd Duke of Queensberry
Duke of Dover
1711 – 1778
Duke of Queensberry
1711 – 1778
Succeeded by
William Douglas, 4th Duke of Queensberry
Preceded by
James Douglas, 3rd Marquess of Queensberry
Marquess of Queensberry
1715 – 1778

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