Dunbar James Douglas (1809 - 1885)

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Dunbar Douglas is a member of Clan Douglas.

Dunbar Douglas was a member of the aristocracy in British Isles.

Sixth Earl of Selkirk, born 22 April 1809, succeeded his father in 1820, was educated at Eton and Oxford, chosen a Representative Peer in 1831, and re-chosen at every election during his life. In 1835 he relinquished the grant of land his father had received from the Hudson Bay Company, receiving in exchange £15,000 of Hudson Bay stock. He was appointed Lord-Lieutenant of the Stewartry of Kirkcudbright in 1844, and Keeper of the Great Seal of Scotland August to December 1852, and again 1858-59. He married, 29 June 1878, Oecely Louisa, daughter of Sir Philip Grey Egerton, Bart., and died, without issue, 11 April 1885, when his honours either became dormant or, as is claimed by the present Duke of Hamilton, became vested in him as fiduciary fiar for his second son. His estates devolved on his sister, Lady Isabella Helen Hope^[1]

ARMS (recorded in Lyon Register).— Quarterly : 1st grand quarter, argent, a man's heart imperially crowned proper, on a chief azure, three mullets of the field. 2nd grand quarter quarterly, 1st, azure, a lion rampant argent, crowned or; 2nd, or, a lion rampant gules, surmounted of a ribbon sable ; 3rd, argent, three piles, gules ; 4th, or, a fess chequy azure and argent, surmounted of a bend sable, charged with three buckles of the first. 3rd grand quarter quarterly, 1st and 4th, gules, three cinquefoils ermine ; 2nd and 3rd, argent, a lymphad, sails furled sable, flagged gules. 4th grand quarter, gules, a lion rampant argent, armed and langued azure, within a bordure of the second, charged with ten roses of the first, barbed vert.

CREST.— On a cap of maintenance a salamander in flames, proper.

MOTTOES.— Jamais arriere. Firmior quo Paratior.

SUPPORTERS.— Dexter, a savage wreathed about the head and middle with laurel, and brandishing a club in his right hand, all proper. Sinister, an antelope, ducally gorged and having a chain thereto, proper.^[2]

Sources

1. ↑ The Scots Peerage, founded on Wood's edition of Sir Robert Douglas's Peerage of Scotland; containing an historical and genealogical account of the nobility of that kingdom., Paul, JB (ed), David Douglas, Edinburgh 1910, vol 7, pp 524f
2. ↑ ibid., p525

• Wikipedia
• Johnston, George Harvey. "The Douglases of Angus." The Heraldry of the Douglases: With Notes on All the Males of the Family, Descriptions of the Arms, Plates and Pedigrees. Edinburgh: W. & A.K. Johnston, Limited, 1907.51. Print.