Old Photograph Cummertrees Scotland

Old photograph of cottages in Cummertrees, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. Lord Francis William Bouverie Douglas was born in Cummertrees on 8 February 1847. He was a novice British mountaineer. After sharing in the first ascent of the Matterhorn, he died on 14 July 1865 in a fall on the way down from the summit. He was the son of Archibald William Douglas, 8th Marquess of Queensberry and his wife Caroline, daughter of General Sir William Robert Clayton, Baronet, born 1786, died 1866, member of parliament for Great Marlow. He had an older sister, Lady Gertrude Georgiana Douglas, born 1842, died 1893; an older brother, John Sholto Douglas, Viscount Drumlanrig, born 1844, died 1900, later the ninth Marquess of Queensberry; a younger brother, Lord Archibald Edward Douglas, born 1850, died 1938, who became a clergyman; and a younger brother and sister, the twins Lord James Douglas, died 1891 and Lady Florence Douglas, born 1855, died 1905, who married Sir Alexander Beaumont Churchill Dixie, 11th Baronet. He was an uncle of Oscar Wilde's lover Lord Alfred Douglas, and a younger brother of John Douglas, 9th Marquess of Queensberry.



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