The Marquess of Queensberry, sometime professor of ceramics at the Royal College of Art, died 22 July, 2026. He was 96. He was a peer for 72 years.
Queensberry was the 14th Lord Douglas of Hawick and Tibberis [S., 1628]; the 11th Baronet Douglas, of Kelhead [N.S., 1667]; 14th Viscount of Drumlanrig [S., 1628]; the 12th Earl of Drumlanrig and Sanchar [S., 1681]; the 12th Marquess of Queensberry [S., 1681]; the 12th Viscount of Nith, Torthorwald and Ross [S., 1681]; the 14th Earl of Queensberry [S., 1633] ; and the 12th Lord Douglas of Kinmouth, Midlebie, and Dornock [S., 1681].
David Angus Harrington Douglas was born 19 December, 1929, son of the 11th Marquess of Queensberry (1896-1954), and his second wife the former Cathleen Sabine Mann (1897-1959); and he succeeded the family honours on the death of his father, 27 April, 1954.
He was educated at Eton and served as a Second Lieutenant in the Royal Horse Guards. He was appointed professor of ceramics at the Royal College of Art in 1959, and appointed a Fellow of the Royal College of Art in 1990.
He married thrice - firstly, 18 July, 1956 (div. 1969), Ann Jones, daughter of Maurice Sinnett Jones, and former wife of George Arthur Radford; married 2ndly, 10 July, 1969 (div. 1986), Alexandra Mary Clare Wyndham Sich, daughter of Guy Wyndham Sich, and married thirdly, 2000, Hsueh-Chun Liao.
Queensberry had issue from his three marriages. Two daughter from the first union, Lady Emma (born 1956) and Lady Alice (born 1965), three sons and a daughter from his second marriage, Sholto Francis Guy, Viscount Drumlanrig (born 1 June, 1967), and Lord Milo Luke Dickon Douglas (1978-2009), Lord Torquhil Douglas, (and Lady Kate (born 1969), and a daughter by his third wife, Lady Beth Douglas (1999-2018).
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