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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, father of Lord Alfred Douglas, an intimate friend of Wilde, planned to present Wilde a bouquet of rotten vegetables and disrupt 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 friend
Because Bobbie had previously shown tendencies toward alcoholism and instability, Astor's friend Philip Kerr, now Marquess of Lothian, told her that the arrest might be positive for him.
His son, the second Earl, was a close personal friend of James Graham the Marquess of Montrose and was with him when he subscribed to the National Covenant in 1638.
He accompanied Montrose on his early campaigns in defence of the Covenant, but despite his great affection for the Marquess, he could not support him when he broke with the Scots Parliament to fight for Charles I. Lyon almost ruined his estates in supporting the Army of the Covenant against his friend.
After Nelson's death at the Battle of Trafalgar, it is believed that Charles Douglas, 6th Marquess of Queensberry, a friend of Nelson's mistress, Emma Hamilton, planted clumps of beech trees on his estate near Amesbury to commemorate him.
* Li Ji ( 酈寄 ), the son of Li Shang ( 酈商 ), the Marquess of Quzhou and the best friend of Lü Lu – purportedly, Zhou and Chen forced his cooperation by kidnapping his father, but this is disputed
The 7th Marquess was described by his friend Jamie Spencer-Churchill, Marquess of Blandford, as a " complicated, reserved character, hiding behind a flamboyant personality ".

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