Archibald Douglas, 1st Earl of Forfar, 2nd Earl of Ormonde (3 May 1653 – 11 November 1712) was a
Scottish
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*Scottish Gaelic, a Celtic Goidelic language of the Indo-European language family native to Scotland
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peer.

He was the second son and youngest child of
Archibald Douglas, Earl of Angus and 1st Earl of Ormond, by his second wife, Jean Wemyss, the daughter of
David Wemyss, 2nd Earl of Wemyss and the Hon. Anna Balfour of Burleigh. He was also the younger half-brother of
James Douglas, 2nd Marquess of Douglas
James Douglas, 2nd Marquess of Douglas (c.1646 – 25 February 1700)David Menarry, 'Douglas, James, second Marquess of Douglas (c.1646–1700)’, ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, 2004. was the son of Archiba ...
and the younger brother of Lady Margaret Douglas, wife of
Alexander Seton, 1st Viscount of Kingston.
He was made the
Earl of Forfar and Lord of Wandell and Hartside on 2 October 1661 at the age of eight. He married Robina Lockhart (1662–1741), daughter of Sir
William Lockhart of Lee
Sir William Lockhart of Lee (1621–1675), was a Scottish soldier and diplomat who fought for the Covenanters during the 1638 to 1651 Wars of the Three Kingdoms. Following Royalist defeat in the 1642 to 1647 First English Civil War, Lockhart to ...
and Robina Sewster, on 19 August 1679 at
Lincoln's Inn
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Chapel, London, England.
His only son,
Archibald Douglas, 2nd Earl of Forfar
Archibald Douglas, 2nd Earl of Forfar, 3rd Earl of Ormond (25 May 1692 – 8 December 1715) was a Scottish peer.
He was the only son of Archibald Douglas, 1st Earl of Forfar, and Robina Lockhart, the daughter of Sir William Lockhart of Lee and ...
, was born in 1692.
He was a Privy Counsellor to both
King William III
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and
Queen Anne from 1689 until his death in 1712. He served as
Commissioner of the Privy Seal from 1689 to 1690 and Commissioner for the Treasury from 1704 to 1705.
In 1700, he moved the family residence from
Bothwell Castle
Bothwell Castle is a large medieval castle, sited on a high, steep bank, above a bend in the River Clyde in South Lanarkshire, Scotland. It is located between Bothwell and Uddingston, about south-east of Glasgow. Construction of the castle wa ...
to his new mansion,
Bothwell House, which was dubbed "New Bothwell Castle".
He voted for the
Act of Union in 1707, having allegedly received £100 in payment from the English.
He died on 11 November 1712 and was buried in
Bothwell Church, Scotland.
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1653 births
1712 deaths
Earls of Forfar
Earls of Ormond
Members of the Convention of the Estates of Scotland 1689
Commissioners of the Treasury of Scotland