Charles Douglas, third duke of Queensberry

(1698-1778)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Queensberry, Charles Douglas, Duke of, 1698-1778 NRA: Douglas, Charles (1698-1778) 3rd Duke of Queensberry 2nd Duke of Dover DNB: Douglas, Charles, third duke of Queensberry and second duke of Dover (1698-1778), courtier and politician LBT ID: DuQueen3 VIAF ID: 26155814 LOC ID: n88131802	B/BAP: 1698-11-24 DIED: 1778-10-22
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He was lord of the bedchamber (1721), vice-admiral of Scotland (1722), privy councillor (1726), patron of John Gay, and the husband of Kitty Douglas.
REFERENCES TO Charles Douglas, third duke of Queensberry: Walter Scott to Joanna Baillie, 12 September 1813 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Found 1: ¶ 2 Sir Walter Scott to Daniel Terry, 18 February 1824 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Found 1: ¶ 1 Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Chapter II 1813 Chapter XII 1824 Redding, Cyrus, 1785-1870, Fifty Years’ Recollections, Literary and Personal, with Observations on Men and Things. 3 vols (London: Charles J. Skeet, 1858) Chapter V. Found 1: ¶ 26