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| • | Francis Archibald Douglas, Viscount Drumlanrig (3 February 1867–19 October 1894) was a Scottish nobleman and politician, the eldest son of the 9th Marquess of Queensberry. He was educated at Harrow School and later served as a Private Secretary to the Liberal politician Lord Rosebery. Thanks to Rosebery's patronage, on 22 June 1893 he was raised to the Peerage of the United Kingdom as Baron Kelhead, of Kelhead in the County of Dumfries. This provided him with an seat in the House of Lords, which was denied to his father because his titles were all in the Peerage of Scotland.
Lord Drumlanrig's father served in Parliament from 1872 to 1880 as a representative peer, but in 1880 he refused, as an atheist, to take the religious oath of allegiance to the Queen. He was not allowed to take his seat and was never again chosen as representative peer by the Scottish nobles. His son's accession to Parliament as the 1st Baron Kelhead precipitated a bitter dispute between them and also between Queensberry and Lord Rosebery, who became Prime Minister in 1894.
Shortly after his ennoblement Lord Drumlanrig died in a hunting accident in October 1894. He was unmarried and his younger brother Lord Percy Douglas became heir to his father's titles.
It has been alleged that Lord Drumlanrig had a homosexual relationship with Rosebery and that Queensberry had threatened to expose Rosebery if his government did not vigorously prosecute Oscar Wilde in the affair stemming from Wilde's relationship with Francis Douglas's younger brother Lord Alfred Douglas. It is also sometimes alleged that Drumlanrig's death was a suicide prompted by fear of exposure as a homosexual. Although these rumours have been repeated by many sources, there is little contemporary evidence to support them. Rosebery was, by most accounts, ha
Source: [wikipedia: francis douglas, viscount drumlanrig]
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