Person
Walter Francis Montagu Douglas-Scott
- Slug
- walter-francis-montagu-douglas-scott-337
- Alternative names
- Duke of Buccleuch and Queensbury
- Gender
- Assigned male at birth
- Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Ethnicity
- White
- Languages
- English
- Occupations
- Noble, Politician
Second son of the fourth duke of Buccleuch and Hon. Catherine Townshend born at Dalkeith House, Midlothan, Scotland, inherited the dukedom at thirteen as his elder brother had passed. Staunch conservative and served in Robert Peel’s ministry (1842-46) and lord president of the council for the first six months of 1846. Magnate and politician also owned one of the largest most profitable estates. In 1835 he was made a knight of the garter.