Francis Douglas, Viscount Drumlanrig

Francis Archibald Douglas, Viscount Drumlanrig (3 February 1867 – 18 October 1894),[1] also 1st Baron Kelhead in his own right, was a British nobleman and Liberal politician.

Born at 8 Chesterfield Street, Mayfair, London,[1] Drumlanrig was the eldest son of John Douglas, 9th Marquess of Queensberry, by his first wife Sibyl, daughter of Alfred Montgomery.

He was educated at Harrow and at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst and served as lieutenant in the 2nd Battalion of the Coldstream Guards, British Army, from June 1887, when he received his commission,[2] to 1893.

[citation needed] Lord Queensberry had served in Parliament from 1872 to 1880 as a Scottish representative peer, but in 1880 he refused, as an atheist, to take the religious oath of allegiance to the Queen.

[citation needed] On 18 October 1894, sixteen months after his ennoblement, Drumlanrig died at Quantock Lodge, Somerset, at age 27, from injuries received during a shooting party.