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unusual facts about Marquess of Queensberry



Baron Penrhyn

The Douglas family of the second creation are the same of the same lineage as the Marquesses of Queensberry (note the appearance of the middle name Sholto in both families) and are also related to the later Earls of Home.

Edward George Clarke

Clarke represented Oscar Wilde in his ill-advised prosecution of the Marquess of Queensberry for criminal libel.

His legal career included representing Oscar Wilde in his disastrous prosecution of the Marquess of Queensberry for libel, and representing the plaintiff in the "Baccarat Case", during which Sir Edward cross-examined the Prince of Wales.

Leadenhall Press

Other authors included Andrew Lang, Egyptologist W. M. Flinders Petrie, Lady Florence Dixie (feminist sister of the infamous Marquess of Queensberry), Max O'Rell, Louis Fagan of the British Museum, J. A. Fuller Maitland, Grant Allen, and Count Eric Stenbock.

Thomas William Hodgson Crosland

The bitter feud between Lord Alfred's father the Marquess of Queensberry and his son resulted in Wilde sueing the Marquess for libel at Douglas’s urging.


see also

Francis Douglas

Lord Francis Douglas (1847–1865), son of Archibald Douglas, 8th Marquess of Queensberry who was killed in the first successful ascent of the Matterhorn

John Chambers

John Graham Chambers (1843–1883), codified the "Marquess of Queensberry rules", upon which modern day boxing is based