Thomas Douglas, the fifth earl of Selkirk, was an intelligent, quietly ambitious man with a progressive native. In 1792, he had toured the Scottish Highlands and he had been moved by the plight of ...

Charles Hamilton (formerly Douglas) Earl of Selkirk and Baron Daer and Shortcleuch, was buried on 18th April 1739 in the vault of the Duke of Buckingham in Henry VII's chapel in Westminster Abbey. He ...

Basil William Douglas-Hamilton, Lord Daer (1763-1794) was the son of the Earl of Selkirk. When Burns met him, he was a student at Edinburgh staying with Professor Dugald Stewart. Daer was an ...