Everything about James Douglas 2nd Duke Of Queensberry totally explained
James Douglas, 2nd Duke of Queensberry and 1st Duke of Dover (
18 December 1662 -
6 July 1711), was a Scottish nobleman.
He was the eldest son of
William Douglas, 1st Duke of Queensberry and his wife Isabel Douglas, daughter of
William Douglas, 1st Marquess of Douglas.
Educated at the
University of Glasgow, he was appointed a Scottish
Privy Counsellor in 1684, and was lieutenant-colonel of Dundee's regiment of horse. He joined
William III in 1688 and was appointed colonel of the 6th
Horse Guards Regiment.
He was appointed
Lord High Treasurer of Scotland from 1693 and
Keeper of the Privy Seal of Scotland from 1695 to 1702. He was
Lord High Commissioner to the Parliament of Scotland in 1700, 1702 and 1703, in which role he procured the abandonment of the
Darién scheme.
He was appointed a
Knight of the Garter in 1701, and was
Secretary of State from 1702. He encouraged the Jacobites by his undecided attitude on the question of the settlement, and was deluded into unconsciously furthering the Jacobite designs of
Simon Fraser, 11th Lord Lovat. He withdrew from government in 1704.
He was reinstated as
Keeper of the Privy Seal of Scotland in 1705, was a commissioner of the estates in 1706, and procured the signing of the
Treaty of Union. He was
Secretary of State for Scotland from 1709 until his death.
He was created
Duke of Dover,
Marquess of Beverley and
Earl of Ripon in 1708, and appointed to the British
Privy Council in the same year.
Queensberry House in
Edinburgh is today part of the
Scottish Parliament Building.
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