Gibbs Family Tree
Charles William Sholto Douglas
1881 - 1960 (79 years)1. Charles William Sholto Douglas was born on 19 Jul 1881; died on 10 Oct 1960. Charles married Alice Agnes Fox-Pitt on 11 Dec 1920. Alice (daughter of William Augustus Lane Fox-Pitt and Lily Ethel Payne) was born on 11 Dec 1899; died on 19 Jan 1924. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
Children:
- 2. Helen Alice Douglas was born on 7 Oct 1921; died on 4 Jun 2009.
- 3. Thomas William Douglas was born on 10 Jan 1924; died on 12 Dec 1943 in Italy.
Charles married Florence Timson on 15 Apr 1926. Florence (daughter of Major Henry Thomas Timson and Edith Theodesia Glyn) was born on 25 May 1897; died in 1985. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
Children:
- 4. John Charles Sholto Douglas, Earl of Morton was born on 19 Mar 1927; died on 5 Mar 2016.
Generation: 2
2. Helen Alice Douglas (1.Charles1) was born on 7 Oct 1921; died on 4 Jun 2009. Helen married Lt Col Brian Eric Leslie Abdy Collins on 20 Oct 1947. Brian was born on 29 May 1913; died on 22 Dec 1952. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
Helen married Capitain Gerald John Ponsonby, 6th Baron de Mauley of Canford on 16 Nov 1954. Gerald (son of Hubert William Ponsonby, 5th Baron de Mauley of Canford and Elgiva Margaret Dundas) was born on 19 Dec 1921; died on 17 Oct 2002. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
4. John Charles Sholto Douglas, Earl of Morton (1.Charles1) was born on 19 Mar 1927; died on 5 Mar 2016. Other Events and Attributes:
- Residence: Dalmahoy, Kirknewton, Midlothian, Scotland
Notes:
21st Earl of Morton (1976), younger son of Hon. Charles William Sholto Douglas (see Morton E.). Educated at Canford School, Dorset.
Farming at Lukers Farm, Brinkworth, Wilts., 1949-52, and since 1952 at Dalmahoy, Kirknewton, Midlothian.
Senior Partner Dalmahoy Farms and Chairman Dalmahoy Country Club 1978. Chairman Caledonian Building Society and later Scottish Director British and West Building Society.
In 1982, he was appointed a deputy lieutenant of West Lothian, and he served as Lord Lieutenant of West Lothian from 1985 to 2002.
Played polo for Scotland 1977 and 1979 in Kenya.John married Mary Sheila Gibbs, Countess of Morton on 20 Sep 1949 in Shipton Moyne, Gloucestershire. Mary (daughter of Rev. John Stanley Gibbs, MC and Mary Rosamond McCorquodale) was born on 7 Mar 1927 in Badmington, Gloucestershire; died on 1 May 2016. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
Children:
Generation: 3
5. Lady Mary Pamela Douglas (4.John2, 1.Charles1) Mary married Richard Callander [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
Children:
6. John Stewart Sholto Douglas, Earl of Morton (4.John2, 1.Charles1) John married Amanda Kirsten Mitchell, Countess of Morton [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
Children:
7. Hon. Charles James Sholto Douglas (4.John2, 1.Charles1) Charles married Anne Morgan [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
Children:
Generation: 4
11. John David Sholto Douglas, Lord Aberdour (6.John3, 4.John2, 1.Charles1) John married Sarah Rosemary Rizzo [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]