Anne Douglas, Countess of March and 2nd Countess of Ruglen (''

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'' Hamilton; 5 April 1698 – 21 April 1748), was a ''

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'' Scottish peeress.

Early life

Lady Anne was born in

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, Scotland on 5 April 1698. She was the daughter of

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(–1744),** and his wife Lady Anne Kennedy. Her uncle, John Kennedy, Lord Kennedy, predeceased his father, and Anne's first cousin, John Kennedy, became the 8th

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in 1701. Her maternal grandparents were

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and, his first wife, Lady Susannah Hamilton (a daughter of

James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Hamilton James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Hamilton (19 June 1606 – 9 March 1649), known as the 3rd Marquess of Hamilton from March 1625 until April 1643, was a Scottish nobleman and influential political and military leader during the Thirty Years' War and ...

Peerage

The title Earl of Ruglen in the

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, along with the subsidiary titles Viscount of Riccartoun and Lord Hillhouse, were created on the 14th of April, 1697, for her father Lord John Douglas-Hamilton, fourth (third surviving) son of William Douglas-Hamilton, Duke of Hamilton, 1st

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, and his wife

Anne Hamilton, 3rd Duchess of Hamilton Anne Hamilton, 3rd Duchess of Hamilton (6 January 1632 – 17 October 1716) was a Scottish peeress. The daughter of James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Hamilton and 3rd Marquess of Hamilton, Scottish General and premier peer of the realm, and Lady ...

. As her only brother, William, Lord Daer, died in 1742, upon her father's death in 1744, Anne succeeded to the title Countess of Ruglen ''

''.

Personal life

She married William Douglas (–1731), who inherited the earldom of March in 1705. Their son: *

William Douglas, 4th Duke of Queensberry William Douglas, 4th Duke of Queensberry, (16 December 172423 December 1810) was a Scottish noble landowner. He was popularly known as Old Q and was reputed as a high-stakes gambler. In 1799 he was estimated the eighth-wealthiest man (or small ...

(1724–1810), who inherited the earldom of March from his father in 1731 and the earldom of Ruglen from his mother in 1748, but in 1778 inherited the dukedom of Queensberry from a cousin, Charles Douglas. He never married, but had an illegitimate daughter who inherited much of his wealth and became Maria Seymour-Conway, Marchioness of Hertford. Shortly before her own death, she remarried, her second husband being Anthony Sawyer, Esq, who held the position of Paymaster to the King's forces in Scotland. There were no children from this second marriage.

References

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18th-century Scottish women

Hereditary women peers Daughters of Scottish earls