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]

References

1. ^ http://thepeerage.com/p1257.htm
2. ^ The genealogy of the existing British peerage: with sketches of the family, Edmund Lodge

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
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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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Name	Queensberry, Charles Douglas, 3rd Duke Of
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