Robert Douglas, 1st Viscount Belhaven

Robert Douglas, 1st Viscount Belhaven PC (1573 – 14 January 1639), was a Scottish courtier.

[5] He was knighted on 7 February 1609, and took a letter to Prince Henry's friend, John Harington, who was in Italy.

In 1633, on the coronation of Charles I, he was raised to the Peerage of Scotland as Viscount of Belhaven, in the County of Haddington.

[2] Lord Belhaven married Nicola Moray, daughter of Robert Murray of Abercairny, in June 1610.

[1] On his death, his estate including the Gorbals Mansion House passed to his nephew and son-in-law.

Coat of Arms of Robert Douglas
Coat of Arms of Robert Douglas
Fragment from the monument to Nicola Moray, Lady Belhaven, Savoy Chapel