- Baron Glenbervie
Baron Glenbervie, of
Kincardine , was a title created in thePeerage of Ireland on29 November 1800 for Sylvester Douglas, the formerChief Secretary for Ireland and later President of the Board of Trade. On his death on2 May 1823 , the barony became extinct.Barons Glenbervie (1800)
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Sylvester Douglas, 1st Baron Glenbervie (1743–1823)Sylvester Douglas, Baron Glenbervie, was born in 1743, and was educated at the Universities of Aberdeen and Leyden. He was admitted to Lincoln's Inn in 1771, was called to the Bar in 1776, and became K.C. in 1793. Soon afterwards he gave up a legal career and entered at first the Irish and afterwards (in 1795) the English parliament. In 1797 he was made a lord of the treasury, and in 1800 was appointed governor of the Cape of Good Hope, though he did not take up the appointment. At the end of the year he was created Baron Glenbervie of Kincardine in the Irish peerage. After serving as joint paymaster-general and vice-president of the Board of Trade, he was in 1803 and again in 1807 appointed surveyor-general of woods and forests, and on the office of the surveyor-general of the land revenue being combined with the former in 1810, became the first chief commissioner of the new department. He held the office until 1814. He died in 1823.From: 'Nos. 1 and 2, Whitehall Place', Survey of London: volume 16: St Martin-in-the-Fields I: Charing Cross (1935), pp. 194-196. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=68132. Date accessed: 06 October 2008.
In 1625 Sir William Douglas of Glenbervie was created one of the original Baronets of Nova Scotia. The sixth baronet, Sir Robert Douglas, was the celebrated compiler of The Peerage of Scotland. With his son's death in 1812 the baronetcy lapsed; but in 1831 it was revived in favour of his nephew, Kenneth Mackenzie of Kilcry, who thereafter assumed the style of Douglas of Glenbervie. This second baronetcy continued the death of the fifth Baronet, Sir Sholto Courtney Mackenzie Douglas, MC, who served with distinction in both World Wars in the Seaforth Highlanders.
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