Earl of Ruglen
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Earl of Ruglen was a title in the Peerage of Scotland. Along with the subsidiary titles Viscount of Riccartoun and Lord Hillhouse, it was created on the 14th of April, 1697, for Lord John Douglas-Hamilton, fourth (third surviving) son of William Hamilton (previously Douglas), 1st Earl of Selkirk and Duke of Hamilton, and his wife Anne Hamilton, 3rd Duchess of Hamilton. The 1st Earl of Ruglen succeeded as 3rd Earl of Selkirk on the death of his elder brother in 1739. The Earl's only son William, Lord Daer, died in 1742, so on the death of the Earl of Selkirk and Ruglen in 1744, the Earldom of Selkirk passed to his great-nephew, while the Earldom of Ruglen passed to his daughter, Anne, who had married William Douglas, 2nd Earl of March. On her death in 1748, the Earldom of Ruglen passed to her only child William, 3rd Earl of March. He succeeded his first cousin once removed as 5th Marquess and Duke of Queensberry in 1778, and died in 1810, when the Earldom of Ruglen became extinct, the Earldom of March passed to the 8th Earl of Wemyss, the Marquessate of Queensberry passed to Sir Charles Douglas, 5th Bt and the Dukedom of Queensberry passed to the 4th Duke of Buccleuch.