John Douglas, 21st Earl of Morton

John Charles Sholto Douglas, 21st Earl of Morton ( born March 19, 1927) is a Scottish peer and landowner.

Life

He was the son of Charles William Sholto Douglas and Florence Timson and grandson of George Sholto Douglas, 19th Earl of Morton. He went on to Bryanston School in Blandford at Bryanston in Dorset and on the Canford School Canford Magna in Wimborne Minster in Dorset. He inherited in 1976 upon the death of his first cousins ​​, Sholto Charles Douglas, 20th Earl of Morton, the title of the county. With the hereditary title until 1999, a seat in the House of Lords was connected. In Hansard but no speeches by him are recorded.

He is a real estate consultant, a partner Dalmahoy Farms and Chairman of the Edinburgh Polo Club and was a director of the Bristol & West Building Society in Scotland. In 1982 he became Deputy Lieutenant of West Lothian and served from 1985 to 2002 as Lord Lieutenant of West Lothian.

Family

He married in 1949 Mary Sheila Gibbs, with whom he has three children:

• Lady Mary Pamela Douglas ( * 1950) ∞ Richard Callander
• John Sholto Douglas Stewart, Lord Aberdour (* 1952) ∞ Amanda Kirsten Mitchell
• Hon Charles James Sholto Douglas (born 1954 ) ∞ Anne Morgan