Lord Wemyss married Lady Anne Douglas, daughter of William Douglas, 1st Duke of Queensberry and sister of William Douglas, 1st Earl of March ( see below ).

Her older sister, Elizabeth Rousby Green, ( married name Elizabeth Queensberry ) b. ca.

On 28 July 1640 Thomas Maclellan married Janet, a daughter of William Douglas, 1st Earl of Queensberry by Isabel Kerr.

Lord Burghley married firstly in 1929, Lady Mary Theresa Montagu Douglas Scott ( 4 March 1904 – 1 June 1984 ), fourth daughter of Sir John Montagu Douglas Scott, 7th Duke of Buccleuch & 9th Duke of Queensberry and Lady Margaret Alice " Molly " Bridgeman.

His elder son, the Conservative politician Michael Ancram, succeeded to the Marquessate on his death, while his second, third and fourth daughters married the XXVII Chief of the Clan Cameron, the Heir Apparent to the Duke of Grafton, and the Duke of Buccleuch and Queensberry respectively.

Following the divorce from his first wife in 1926, Sir James Dunn married Irene Clarice Richards, the former wife of Francis Archibald Kelhead Douglas, 11th Marquess of Queensberry.

Born in London, England, Dunn is the daughter of the Canadian steel magnate Sir James Dunn, 1st baronet ( 1874 – 1956 ) and his second wife, Irene Clarice Richards, a former musical-comedy actress who had previous been married to Francis Douglas, 11th Marquess of Queensberry.

The third Duke of Buccleuch married the heiress of the Duke of Queensberry ( Clan Douglas ) and became one of the richest men in Britain.

* Lady Caroline Scott ( 6 July 1774 – 29 April 1854 ), married Charles Douglas, 6th Marquess of Queensberry and had issue.

William Douglas, 4th Duke of Queensberry never married ; when he died on 23 December 1810, his peerages and entailments passed to his 2nd cousin once removed, Sir Henry Montagu Scott, 3rd Duke of Buccleuch, through Sir Henry's grandmother, Lady Jane Douglas, Queensberry ’ s first cousin once removed.

Queensberry is the elder son of the 11th Marquess, and his only son by his second wife, artist Cathleen Sabine Mann ( married 1926, divorced 1946 ).

Queensberry has been thrice married ; firstly in 1956 ( div 1969 ) to Anne Jones, by whom he had two daughters ; secondly in 1969 ( div 1986 ) to Alexandra Mary Clare Wyndham Sich, by whom he had three sons ( the eldest born during his first marriage ) and one daughter ; and thirdly in 2000 to Hsueh-Chun Liao, by whom he has a daughter ( legitimated by marriage ).

Queensberry has an eldest but illegitimate son, Ambrose Jonathan Carey ( b. 1961 ), head of a British security and intelligence firm, whose half-sister Caroline Carey ( b. 1959 ), an English art student, married the late Salem bin Laden, prior head of the global Bin Laden family corporation.

* Lady Catherine Hyde ( c. 1701 – 17 July 1777 ), married Charles Douglas, 3rd Duke of Queensberry on 10 March 1720

* Georgina Emily Lucy Seymour ( 1848 – 1944 ), married Henry Stirling-Home-Drummond, maternal grandson of Charles Douglas, 6th Marquess of Queensberry.

Lord Hertford married Maria Emilia Fagnani, reputedly the illegitimate daughter of the 4th Duke of Queensberry and a married Italian aristocrat, the Marchesa Fagnani, on 18 May 1798.

Lord Queensberry married Caroline Margaret Clayton ( 1821 – 1904 ), daughter of General Sir William Clayton, 5th Baronet, at Gretna Green, Scotland, in 1840.

In the early 1980s, he had a short-lived third marriage, to Ann Queensberry before remarrying Sarah Miles in 1988, with whom he remained until his death in 1995.

The representation of the Montagu family ( along with that of the Douglases, Dukes of Queensberry ) later passed to the Scott family, headed by the Duke of Buccleuch, through the marriage of Henry Scott, 3rd Duke of Buccleuch, to Lady Elizabeth Montagu, daughter of George Montagu, 1st Duke of Montagu ( of the 1766 creation ).

The first world heavyweight champion under the Queensberry Rules was " Gentleman Jim " Corbett, who defeated John L. Sullivan in 1892 at the Pelican Athletic Club in New Orleans.

He executed the laws enforcing religious conformity with severity, and filled the parish churches, but resisted the excessive measures of tyranny prescribed by the English government ; and in consequence of an intrigue of the Duke of Queensberry and Lord Perth, who gained the duchess of Portsmouth with a present of £ 27, 000, he was dismissed in 1684.

In contrast, at this time in England ( the home of boxing and the Queensberry rules ), kicking was seen as unsportsmanlike.

Wilde was tipped off and Queensberry was refused admission.

The Marquess of Queensberry, the father of Wilde's intimate friend Lord Alfred Douglas ( who was on holiday in Algiers at the time ), had planned to disrupt the play by throwing a bouquet of rotten vegetables at the playwright when he took his bow at the end of the show.

By the time that story was published, however, the term was already starting to gain a connotation of sexual deviance ( especially that of homosexual and / or effeminate males ), which is already known in the late 19th century ; an early recorded usage of the word in this sense was in a letter by John Sholto Douglas, 9th Marquess of Queensberry to his son Lord Alfred Douglas.

John Sholto Douglas, 9th Marquess of Queensberry GCVO ( 20 July 184431 January 1900 ) was a Scottish nobleman, remembered for lending his name and patronage to the " Marquess of Queensberry rules " that formed the basis of modern boxing, for his outspoken atheism, and for his role in the downfall of author and playwright Oscar Wilde.

Douglas was born in Florence, Italy, the eldest son of Scottish Conservative Party politician Archibald, Viscount Drumlanrig, who was the heir of the 7th Marquess of Queensberry.

He was briefly styled Viscount Drumlanrig following his father's succession in 1856, and on his father's death in 1858 he inherited the Marquessate of Queensberry.

Queensberry was a patron of sport and a noted boxing enthusiast.

Queensberry, a keen rider, was also active in fox hunting and owned several successful race horses.

In 1872, Queensberry was chosen by the Peers of Scotland to sit in the House of Lords as a representative peer.

Queensberry, however, was never again sent to Parliament by the Scottish nobles.

On his father's side he was descended from Sir Archibald Douglas, a younger son of William Douglas, 1st Earl of Queensberry.

One of its more notable inhabitants was Catherine, Duchess of Queensberry.

He was the second son of William Douglas, 1st Duke of Queensberry.

The dukedom was inherited by his second cousin once removed Henry Scott, 3rd Duke of Buccleuch ( see the Duke of Buccleuch for later history of this title ) while the marquessate and earldom of Queensberry passed to his kinsman Sir Charles Douglas, 5th Baronet ( see the Marquess of Queensberry for later history of these titles ).

It was initially a small village, planned and built in 1717 on the Queensberry Estate on the road linking Dumfries to Glasgow.

Any boxer who won one or more of the following titles is eligible for inclusion in this category: the universal world title ( using Marquess of Queensberry rules ), the NBA world title ( 1921 – 1962 ), the WBA world title ( 1962 –), the WBC world title ( 1963 –), the IBF world title ( 1983 –), and the WBO world title ( 1988 –).

The play was also performed in New York and was due to go on tour when Wilde was arrested and charged with indecency and sodomy following his feud with the Marquess of Queensberry over the Marquess ' son, Lord Alfred Douglas.

Nevertheless, on a clear day the following are visible ( from west, clockwise ); Broad Law, Moorfoot Hills, Pentland Hills, the Ochils, Lammermuir Hills, Lochnagar, Ros Hill, Long Crag, Urra Moor, Tosson Hill, Burnhope Seat, Cross Fell, Helvellyn, Scafell Pike, Skiddaw, Sighty Crag, Peel Fell, Queensberry.

* 1895 – Oscar Wilde is arrested in the Cadogan Hotel, London after losing a libel case against the Marquess of Queensberry.

In 1867, the Marquess of Queensberry rules were drafted by John Chambers for amateur championships held at Lillie Bridge in London for Lightweights, Middleweights and Heavyweights.

The rules were published under the patronage of the Marquess of Queensberry, whose name has always been associated with them.

The Marquess of Queensberry rules have been the general rules governing modern boxing since their publication in 1867.

Modern boxing originates with Jack Broughton's rules in the 18th century, and reaches its present form with the Marquess of Queensberry Rules of 1867.

The Marquess of Queensberry, father of Lord Alfred Douglas, an intimate friend of Wilde, planned to present Wilde a bouquet of rotten vegetables and disrupt the show.

Many names and ideas in the play were borrowed from people or places the author had known ; Lady Queensberry, Lord Alfred Douglas ' mother, for example, lived at Bracknell.

* January 31 – John Sholto Douglas, 9th Marquess of Queensberry, Scottish nobleman and boxer ( b. 1844 )

* April 6 – Oscar Wilde is arrested after losing a libel case against the Marquess of Queensberry.

* December 18 – James Douglas, 2nd Duke of Queensberry, Scottish politician ( d. 1711 )

* July 6 – James Douglas, 2nd Duke of Queensberry, Scottish politician ( b. 1662 )

Of the current Dukes, four are male-line descendants of Charles in the illegitimate line: the Duke of Richmond, Lennox and Gordon, the Duke of Buccleuch and Queensberry, the Duke of Grafton and the Duke of St Alban's.