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Marquess and 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, 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.
* 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.
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.
The rules had been drawn up by John Graham Chambers but appeared under Queensberry's sponsorship and are universally known at the " Marquess of Queensberry rules ".
Marquess of Queensberry
sco: John Douglas, 9t Marquess o Queensberry
For instance, the eldest son of the Duke of Buccleuch and Queensberry is styled Earl of Dalkeith, even though the Duke is also the Marquess of Dumfriesshire, a title which outranks the Earldom.
After many years, and several attempts by other men to write acceptable rules, John Graham Chambers wrote the Marquess of Queensberry rules in 1865.
The authorities began to allow prize matches and amateur boxing under this new rule system when John Sholto Douglas, 9th Marquess of Queensberry endorsed its use.
* John, Marquess of Queensberry ( 1990 )
On February 15, 1895 Oscar Wilde, Lord Alfred Douglas and Ross approached solicitor Charles Octavius Humphreys with the intention of suing the Marquess of Queensberry, Douglas ' father, for criminal libel.
* Archibald Douglas, 8th Marquess of Queensberry ( 1818 – 1858 )
* Charles Douglas, 6th Marquess of Queensberry ( 1777 – 1837 ), great-great-great-great-grandson of the 1st Earl of Queensberry

Marquess and father
Conservatives typically see Richard Hooker as the founding father of conservatism, the Marquess of Halifax as important for his pragmatism, David Hume articulated conservative mistrust of rationalism in politics, and Edmund Burke was the leading early theorist.
His eldest son, George, succeeded as fifth Earl, and was the father of John, the seventh Earl, who was created Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair in 1916.
* March 21 – John Campbell, Marquess of Lorne, whose father, the 8th Duke of Argyll, is the serving Secretary of State for India, marries Princess Louise.
When King You replaced Queen Shen with the concubine Baosi ( and designated Baosì's son as the crown prince ), the former queen ’ s powerful father, the Marquess of Shen, joined forces with Quanrong to sack the western capital of Haojing in 770 BC.
However, the father was largely suspected by the Court to be her alleged lover, Sir Thomas Uvedale ( from the alleged prompting of William Seymour, 1st Marquess of Hertford, Robert's brother-in-law who leased part of Essex House in London, and expected to inherit if Robert had no issue ).
The Duke's eldest son is not styled Marquess of Westminster ( which would cause confusion between the son and the father ), and so is styled Earl Grosvenor instead.
The title used does not have to be exactly equivalent to the actual peerage: the eldest son of the current Duke of Wellington is styled Marquess of Douro, although the actual peerage possessed by his father is Marquess Douro ( not of Douro ).
When Cavendish's older brother, William, Marquess of Hartington, was killed in combat in 1944, Cavendish became heir to the dukedom and Marquess of Hartington ; in 1950, upon the death of his father, he became the 11th Duke of Devonshire.
The Marquess of Tavistock became the 14th Duke on the death of his father in November 2002 in Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States.
His father was a Scottish MP ; his mother, a member of the Cecil family descended from Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury, was the daughter of the 2nd Marquess of Salisbury and a sister to the 3rd Marquess, the future Prime Minister.
Upon his father's death in 1821, he succeeded as 2nd Marquess of Londonderry, a title to which his father had been raised in 1816.
After the death of his father in 1821, Castlereagh became the 2nd Marquess of Londonderry.
The couple had two sons ; the elder son, Ryo ( 1885 – 1969 ), succeeded his father as the second Marquess Togo in 1934 and held the title until the kazoku was abolished in 1947.
It stands out as one of the first French cities, after Nancy, to have entered an era of urbanism and metropolitan big scale projects, with the team Gabriel father and son, architects for King Louis XV, under the supervision of two intendants ( Governors ), first Nicolas-François Dupré de Saint-Maur then the Marquis ( Marquess ) de Tourny.
# George Nugent-Temple-Grenville, 1st Marquess of Buckingham, the father of the 1st Duke of Buckingham and Chandos
When his father was made Marquess of Normanby in 1838, he became known by the courtesy title Earl of Mulgrave.
Robert Stewart, 1st Marquess of Londonderry PC ( Ire ) ( 27 September 1739 – 6 April 1821 ), was an Irish politician and landowner, the father of politician Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh.
** James Hamilton, Viscount Hamilton ( 1786 – 1818 ), elder son of the 1st Marquess, predeceased his father
In the company of the a large number of nobles and their wives, including Anne Boleyn's father who was also Viscount Rochford, the Dukes of Norfolk and Suffolk, the Marquess of Exeter, the Earls of Oxford, Essex and Rutland and Viscount Fitzwalter.

Marquess and Lord
This act was unpopular with the right wing of the Conservative Party, most notably Lord Cranborne ( later the Marquess of Salisbury ), who resigned from the government and spoke against the bill, accusing Disraeli of " a political betrayal which has no parallel in our Parliamentary annals.
Charles was baptised on 2 December 1600 by the Bishop of Ross, in a ceremony held in Holyrood Abbey, and was created Duke of Albany, Marquess of Ormond, Earl of Ross and Lord Ardmannoch.
Mary retained the Edwardian appointee William Paulet, 1st Marquess of Winchester, as Lord High Treasurer and assigned him to oversee the revenue collection system.
After the failure of Lord North's ministry ( 1770 – 1782 ) in March 1782 due to Britain's defeat in the American Revolutionary War and the ensuing vote of no confidence by Parliament, the Marquess of Rockingham reasserted the Prime Minister's control over the Cabinet.
The Duke of Fife, the Marquess of Milford Haven, the Countess Mountbatten of Burma, and the Lady Saltoun, and their respective families, as well as Lord Harewood's descendants, are so distant in kinship from the reigning Sovereign that they are relatives, rather than members, of the Royal Family.
* Thomas Grey, Earl of Huntingdon, Marquess of Dorset and Lord Ferrers de Groby ( 1457 – 20 September 1501 ), married firstly Anne Holland, but she died young without issue ; he married secondly on 18 July 1474, Cecily Bonville, suo jure Baroness Harington and Bonville, by whom he had fourteen children.
As the Marquess of Winchester ( Burghley's predecessor as Lord High Treasurer ) had said of himself, Burghley was " sprung from the willow rather than the oak ".
The combined forces of the English Parliamentarians under Lord Fairfax and the Earl of Manchester and the Scottish Covenanters under the Earl of Leven defeated the Royalists commanded by Prince Rupert of the Rhine and the Marquess of Newcastle.
On 30 June 1643, the Royalists commanded by the Marquess of Newcastle defeated the Parliamentarian army of Lord Fairfax at the Battle of Adwalton Moor near Bradford.
The Marquess of Newcastle was forced to divide his army, leaving a detachment under Sir John Belasyse to watch the Parliamentarians under Lord Fairfax in Hull, while he led his main body north to confront Leven.
Resting at Bury nearby, Rupert was joined by the Marquess of Newcastle's cavalry under Lord George Goring, which had broken out of York early in the siege, with a small contingent from Derbyshire, and several regiments which were being freshly raised in Lancashire by the Earl of Derby.
Under interrogation, Sir Geoffrey said that his eldest brother, Lord Montagu, and the Marquess had been parties to his correspondence with Reginald.
File: Lord Cornwallis. jpg | Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis
After Lord North's ministry collapsed in 1782, the Whig Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham was appointed Prime Minister.
The Earl Castle Stewart's heir uses the style Viscount Stewart in order to avoid confusion with the Lord Stewart, eldest son of the Viscount Castlereagh, eldest son of the Marquess of Londonderry.
* Thomas Wharton, 1st Marquess of Wharton and Malmesbury ( 1648 – 1715 ), English Whig politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland
* Edward Somerset, 2nd Marquess of Worcester ( 1601 ?– 1667 ), styled Lord Herbert of Ragland, English nobleman, son of Henry Somerset, 1st Marquess of Worcester
A small private church dedicated to St. Audrey was built by Lord Sackville Cecil, son of the Marquess of Salisbury, on the site of Olive's Mill in 1889 ; The church and other mill premises came into the possession of the parish in 1908, and since 1925 the former Olive's Mill House has been used as the rectory.
The Duke of Devonshire's eldest son may use the courtesy title Marquess of Hartington, whilst the eldest son of the eldest son may use the title Earl of Burlington, and his eldest son may use the title Lord Cavendish.
Briefly serving as Britain's first Foreign Secretary in the ministry of the Marquess of Rockingham in 1782, he returned to the post in a coalition government with his old enemy Lord North in 1783.

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