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André Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri, 1861-1862, Marquis of Douglas, Carte de visite, Paul Frecker, LL/13402
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André Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri
1861-1862
Marquis of Douglas

Carte de visite
Paul Frecker
William Alexander Louis Stephen Douglas-Hamilton, Marquis of Douglas, succeeded his father in 1863 and became the 12th Duke of Hamilton at the age of eighteen. When his cartoon appeared in Spy in 1873, the accompanying commentary informed the magazine's readers that "it is the curse of his life that he has never learnt to find pleasure in aught but idleness, [while] public affairsàappear to be the special object of his aversion." However, the same piece went on to say that in spite of these failings, "he has in him the making of a gentleman whose life should be a service to his country. All that has ever been objected to him was such follies as few untamed youths in his position would have avoidedà.in the graver matters he is a generous-minded and perfectly honourable man."
 
According to another contemporary source, quoted in the Complete Peerage, "[h]ad he not been unweighted by any sense of responsibility and beset by all the deadly sins in a far greater degree than perhaps any other young nobleman of his standing, he might have been a strong plain man, and successful in many ways… at Christchurch he went in for boxing, as he went in later for horse-racing, yachting and other amusements… He was full bodied, of a rudely ruddy complexion, had a powerful neck, and seemed strong enough to fell an ox with his fist… He had a frankness of speech bordering on rudeness."
 
In 1873 he married a daughter of the 7th Duke of Manchester. A daughter was born in 1884. The Duke of Hamilton died in Algiers on 16 May 1895 at the age of fifty. Since he left no male heir, the title passed to a descendant of the 4th Duke. His ten-year-old daughter, Lady Mary Louise Hamilton, inherited Brodick Castle on the Isle of Arran and later married the 6th Duke of Montrose.
 
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