Dunbar Douglas, 6th Earl of Selkirk
- Dunbar Douglas, 6th Earl of Selkirk
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"Created in 1646"
The Earl of Selkirk as caricatured by Spy (Leslie Ward) in Vanity Fair, May 1882
Dunbar James Douglas, 6th Earl of Selkirk FRS (22 April 1809 – 11 April 1885) was a Scottish peer.
Biography
The son of Thomas Douglas, 5th Earl of Selkirk and Joan Wedderburn-Colville, he was born in London.
He was educated at Eton College and Christ Church, Oxford, graduating with First Class honours in Mathematics.
He was a Scottish representative peer from 1830 until his death, and was Keeper of the Great Seal of Scotland from August 1852 until December 1852 and again from 1858 to 1859.
He was invested as a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1831.
He held the office of Lord-Lieutenant of the Stewartry of Kirkcudbright between 1844 and 1885.
He died at Saint Mary's Isle, Kirkcudbrightshire, in 1885, and the title of Earl of Selkirk devolved on the 12th Duke of Hamilton. The subsidiary title of Lord Daer and Shortcleuch became dormant.
Categories:
- 1809 births
- 1885 deaths
- Keepers of the Great Seal of Scotland
- Earls in the Peerage of Scotland
- Old Etonians
- Alumni of Christ Church, Oxford
- Fellows of the Royal Society
- Lord-Lieutenants of Kirkcudbright
- Scottish representative peers
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