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Margaret Douglas (1610–1678), married Archibald Campbell, 1st Marquess of Argyll and had issue. Anne Douglas (d. 1667), married the George Hay, 2nd Earl of Kinnoull and had issue. Robert Douglas, 8th Earl of Morton (d. 1649), married Anne Villiers, their son was William Douglas, 9th Earl of Morton (d.1681).
William Vallance Douglas Hodge (Edimburgo, 17 giugno 1903 – Cambridge, 7 luglio 1975) è stato un matematico britannico. Conosciuto per i suoi contributi in geometria , è noto in particolare per lo sviluppo di quella che è oggi conosciuta come teoria di Hodge e per aver introdotto l' operatore di Hodge .
The origins of William are uncertain, the first of the name of Douglas to appear on historic record. He appears as witness to a charter of Jocelin, Bishop of Glasgow in 1174 in favour of the monks of Kelso Abbey, at which time he was in possession of the Lands of Douglas. [1] It seems he was the son of Theobald le Fleming (born 1120, Aldingham ...
William Douglas-Home wrote some 50 plays, most of them comedies in an upper class setting. "In the space of a month or two after his release he wrote two plays which were successful in London in 1947. The first, Now Barabbas, was based on his experience in gaol and in the latter some of the characters were drawn from his family."
William Douglas Francis (6 March 1889 – 2 January 1959) was an Australian botanist. Born in Bega, New South Wales , at the age of 17 he moved with his father Alfred and brother Frederick from Wollongong , where he was attending Wollongong Superior Public School, to Kin Kin in Queensland.
William Douglas (sea captain) William Douglas (died 1791) was a Scottish ship captain and an oceanographer maritime fur trader during the late 18th century. He worked with the British trader and Captain John Meares, commanding the ship Iphigenia Nubiana. He was involved in the Nootka Crisis of 1789, which brought Britain and Spain to the brink ...
Sir William Fettes Douglas PPRSA (1822–1891) was a Scottish painter and art connoisseur, rising to be President of the Royal Scottish Academy. Life [ edit ] He was born on 12 March 1822 at 26 Rankeillor Street in Edinburgh 's South Side, the eldest son of James Douglas, a banker in the Commercial Bank of Scotland and his wife, Martha Brook, grand-niece of Sir William Fettes , bart., the ...
