Zone d'identification
Type d'entité
Personne
Forme autorisée du nom
Selkirk, Thomas Douglas, Earl of
Forme(s) parallèle(s) du nom
Forme(s) du nom normalisée(s) selon d'autres conventions
Autre(s) forme(s) du nom
- Selkirk, Lord
- Douglas, Thomas
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Zone de description
Dates d'existence
1771-1820
Historique
Thomas Douglas, the Fifth Earl of Selkirk, was born on the 20 June 1771, on St. Mary's Isle near Kirkudbright, Scotland, seventh son of Dunbar Hamiliton Douglas and Helen Hamilton. With the death of his father in 1799, Thomas became the Fifth Earl of Selkirk. He married Jean Wedderburn in Inveresk, Scotland, on the 24 November 1807, and they had three children. Shocked by the effect of the highland clearances in Scotland, Douglas proposed to the British government the emigration of Highlanders to Prince Edward Island. The first ship of settlers set out in July of 1803 and arrived on PEI the following month, settling on land in Lots 57, 58, 60, and 62. Thomas Douglas died in Pau, France, on the 8 April 1820.
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Règles et/ou conventions utilisées
RAD 22.6A1
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Dates de production, de révision et de suppression
25 April 2001. Entered into AtoM 27 November 2014.