Francis Douglas, 11th Marquess of Queensberry

Francis Archibald Kelhead Douglas (January 17, 1896 Kingston upon Thames, Surrey, England - April 27, 1954 Folkestone, Kent, England ) was the 11th Marquess of Queensberry. He was an English-born Scottish representative peer from 1922 to 1929.

He was the second child and first son of Percy Sholto Douglas, 10th Marquess of Queensberry and his first wife, Anna Maria Walters (1866-1917).

He was educated at Harrow School and the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst, and then enlisted with the 1st Battalion, Royal Highlanders as a second lieutenant in January 1915. He served on the Western Front and was promoted to lieutenant in October 1915 and to captain in November 1917. During his service, he suffered from severe appendicitis, diphtheria and temporary paralysis. Following the recommendation of the Medical Board, he was granted permission by the War Office to travel to the United States of America during his leave in 1916. Upon his return to the Western Front he received a gunshot wound to the leg. He applied to relinquish his commission, on account of wounds received in action, in November 1919. In 1927, as the Marquess of Queensbury, he resigned his commission from the Regular Army Reserve of Officers.

He was a member of the London Stock Exchange, and wrote two books relating to his family history: The Sporting Queensberrys (1942) and (with P. Colson ) Oscar Wilde and the Black Douglas (1949). At the time of his birth, his grandfather the 9th Marquess had been the defendant in a recent libel trial against Wilde in 1895.

Family
He married his first wife, Irene Clarice Richards, on 4 December 1917. They had issue, one daughter:
 * Patricia Sybil, born 24 December 1918. Married firstly in 1938 Count John Gerard de Bendern (divorced 1950), and secondly in 1950 (divorced 1960) Hermann Hornak.

The couple divorced in 1925. She remarried to Sir James Dunn, 1st baronet, and became the mother of painter Anne Dunn.

His second wife was Cathleen Sabine Mann, daughter of portrait artist Harrington Mann (married 18 March 1926, divorced 1946, died 1959). The couple had two children:
 * David Harrington Angus Douglas, born 19 December 1927
 * Jane Katherine, born 18 December 1926, married 1949 (divorced 1958) David Arthur Cory-Wright

His third wife was Muriel Beatrice Margaret (known as 'Mimi'), daughter of Arthur John Rowe Thornett, of Monte Carlo, and former wife of Albert Sydney Gore Chunn. The couple had issue, one son:
 * Gawain Archibald Francis Douglas, born 23 May 1948

The Marquess died, aged 58, in 1954. His son David succeeded him as Marquess. The dowager Marchioness died in 1992.