Drumlanrig Castle and the Douglases

EARLY HISTORY OF DURISDEER. IJ
Dumfriesshire in 1810. This painting is by Sir Godfrey
Kneller, and has less of the mannerism that is so con-
spicuous in many of his works, though here too we have
the oval of the head greatly lengthened.
6. William, last Duke of Queensberry, was third Earl
of March, born 16th December, 1725, and succeeded
his cousin in 1778 as fourth Duke of Queensberry, thus
uniting in his person three distinct peerages. His Grace
was well known on the turf and in the circles of fashion,
and after possessing a peerage for eighty years, died at
London, 23rd December, 1810, in the eighty-sixth year of
his age, unmarried. In him terminated the male line of
William, first Duke of Queensberry; the descendants of
John, Earl of Ruglen; and of William, Earl of March.
The titles of Duke of Queensberry, Marquis of Dumfries-
shire, Earl of Drumlanrig and Sanquhar, Viscount of Nith,
Torthorwald, and Ross, Lord Douglas of Kinmount,
Middlebie, and Dornock, with the barony of Drumlanrig
and other extensive property in the county of Dumfries,
devolved in terms of the patent, 1706, and in virtue of an
entail executed by the second Duke, on Henry, Duke of
Buccleuch, the heir of line of the Queensberry family,
who was thenceforward designed Duke of Buccleuch and
Queensberry. The titles of Marquis and Earl of Queens-
berry, Viscount of Drumlanrig, Lord Douglas of Hawick
and Tibbers, devolved on the heir male of the family^
Sir Charles Douglas of Kelhead, Bt, in terms of the
patents 1628, 1633, and 1682, along with the baronies of
Tinwald and Torthorwald and other estates in Dumfries-
shire. The titles of Earl of March, Viscount of Peebles,
and Lord Douglas of Neidpath, Lyne, and Munard,
devolved on the Earl of Wemyss. It seems not to be
known by whom this painting was executed.