With which sport is Sir John Sholto Douglas (1844-1900) connected?
"paintings. In December 1921, the novelist Arnold Bennett noted in his journal that on Boxing Day he had lunched with Douglas and his wife at the Hotel Bristol in Cannes to meet the Polish singer Jean de Reszke. From 1926 to 1939, Douglas lived in France and painted many landscapes in Provence. Elsie Bonita Adams has compared Douglas to the character of Eugene Marchbanks in George Bernard Shaw's play Candida (1898): In March 2005, a portrait by Douglas of the Scottish laird Ian Brodie, 24th Brodie of Brodie, was accepted by the British government from Brodie's heir in lieu of"
"Sholto Johnstone Douglas Robert Sholto Johnstone Douglas (3 December 1871 – 10 March 1958), known as Sholto Douglas, or more formally as Sholto Johnstone Douglas, was a Scottish figurative artist, a painter chiefly of portraits and landscapes. In 1895, he stood surety for the bail of Oscar Wilde. Douglas was born in Edinburgh, a member of the aristocratic Queensberry family, part of the Clan Douglas. He was the son of A. H. Johnstone Douglas DL JP of Lockerbie (1846–1923) and his wife Jane Maitland Stewart, and the grandson of Robert Johnstone Douglas of Lockerbie, himself the son of Henry Alexander"
"of John Herbert Douglas (1853-1930) and Julia Ann (née Tyler) and was born at Stoke Newington, London in what is now Belfast Road. He was educated at Moulton Grammar School and Felsted School and joined his father's wood-importing firm, which supported his amateur status in cricket and boxing. Douglas also played football once for the England amateur side (occasion unknown, through loss of records). He served in the Bedfordshire Regiment throughout World War I, eventually as major (acting lieutenant-colonel). In 1908 Douglas won an Olympic gold medal as a middleweight boxer. All three of his bouts, including the final, described"
"John Douglas, 21st Earl of Morton John Charles Sholto Douglas, 21st Earl of Morton (19 March 1927 – 5 March 2016) was a Scottish peer and landowner. Douglas was the son of Hon. Charles William Sholto Douglas and Florence Timson. He was educated at Bryanston School and Canford School. He succeeded to the earldom in 1976, upon the death of his first cousin, the 20th Earl. Morton was a property consultant, a partner in Dalmahoy Farms and chairman of the Edinburgh Polo Club, and was a director in Scotland of the Bristol & West Building Society. In 1982, he was"
"1952. Thirdly he married Hazel Walker in 1955; they had one daughter. Sholto Douglas, 1st Baron Douglas of Kirtleside Marshal of the Royal Air Force William Sholto Douglas, 1st Baron Douglas of Kirtleside, (23 December 1893 – 29 October 1969) was a senior commander in the Royal Air Force. After serving as a pilot, then a flight commander and finally as a squadron commander during the First World War, he served a flying instructor during the inter-war years before becoming Director of Staff Duties and then Assistant Chief of the Air Staff at the Air Ministry. During the Second World"
"Sholto Douglas, 1st Baron Douglas of Kirtleside Marshal of the Royal Air Force William Sholto Douglas, 1st Baron Douglas of Kirtleside, (23 December 1893 – 29 October 1969) was a senior commander in the Royal Air Force. After serving as a pilot, then a flight commander and finally as a squadron commander during the First World War, he served a flying instructor during the inter-war years before becoming Director of Staff Duties and then Assistant Chief of the Air Staff at the Air Ministry. During the Second World War Douglas clashed with other senior commanders over strategy in the Battle"
"Hay Douglas (1907–1976). Sholto Douglas, 19th Earl of Morton Sholto George Watson Douglas, 19th Earl of Morton, DL (5 November 1844 – 8 October 1935) was a major landowner in Scotland, a businessman with mining investments in what is now Svalbard, Norway, and politician, serving as a representative peer (1886-1935) after being elected by the Peerage of Scotland. In the early 20th century, entrepreneurs and national governments staked claims in the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard, to develop resources and mining. Britain, the Netherlands, and Denmark-Norway all had interests there, soon followed by the Russian Empire. The Earl of Morton had"
"Sholto Douglas, 19th Earl of Morton Sholto George Watson Douglas, 19th Earl of Morton, DL (5 November 1844 – 8 October 1935) was a major landowner in Scotland, a businessman with mining investments in what is now Svalbard, Norway, and politician, serving as a representative peer (1886-1935) after being elected by the Peerage of Scotland. In the early 20th century, entrepreneurs and national governments staked claims in the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard, to develop resources and mining. Britain, the Netherlands, and Denmark-Norway all had interests there, soon followed by the Russian Empire. The Earl of Morton had several Arctic interests."
"George Douglas (footballer) George Harold Douglas (18 August 1893 – 1979) was an English professional association footballer who played as a winger. He played over 300 matches and scored 23 goals in the Football League before moving into non-league football in 1928 as player/manager of Tunbridge Wells Rangers until 1930 he was then to move to Dover Athletic Article from Tunbridge Wells Local Newspaper on George's death in 1979: Former England footballer and well known local sportsman Mr George Harold Douglas, of 43 Manor Road Southborogh, died on Wednesday of last week, aged 85. Mr Douglas started his football career"
"he scored two goals of which he was very proud. He also played at the Hauge against the Netherlands. After retiring from football he took up a post as manager of a sports shop in Tunbridge Wells - a position he held for 32 years. Following that he worked as a water baliff on the River Medway at Tonbridge for ten years. Mr Douglas leaves a widow and four sons. A funeral Service was held at the Kent and Sussex Crematorium on Wednesday. Dover Express 14/11/30 He was in the Army during the Great War, and played for the British"
"Army against the French Army in Paris, and against the Belgian Army in Brussels. He played in the British Expeditionary Force team that won the Inter Theatre of War Championship at Stamford Bridge. George Douglas (footballer) George Harold Douglas (18 August 1893 – 1979) was an English professional association footballer who played as a winger. He played over 300 matches and scored 23 goals in the Football League before moving into non-league football in 1928 as player/manager of Tunbridge Wells Rangers until 1930 he was then to move to Dover Athletic Article from Tunbridge Wells Local Newspaper on George's death"
"John Douglas (sportsman) John Raymond Douglas (born 24 October 1951 in Brunswick East) is a former Australian sportsman who played Australian rules football in the Victorian Football League (VFL) with North Melbourne during the 1970s and first-class cricket for Victoria. From the Coburg Amateurs originally, Douglas made his VFL debut in the opening round of the 1972 season against St Kilda, whose Brownlow Medal rover Ross Smith was celebrating his 200th game. He played six further games that year and did not appear again until 1975, when North Melbourne won their inaugural premiership with Douglas taking the field three times"
"Johnny Douglas John William Henry Tyler Douglas (3 September 1882 – 19 December 1930) was an English cricketer who was active in the early decades of the twentieth century. Douglas was an all-rounder who played for Essex County Cricket Club from 1901 to 1928 and captained the county from 1911 to 1928. He also played for England and captained the England team both before and after the First World War with markedly different success. As well as playing cricket, Douglas was a notable amateur boxer who won the middleweight gold medal at the 1908 Olympic Games. Douglas was the son"
"Sholto Douglas Sholto Douglas was the mythical progenitor of Clan Douglas, a powerful and warlike family in medieval Scotland. A mythical battle took place: ""in 767, between King ""Solvathius"" rightful king of Scotland and a pretender ""Donald Bane"". The victory was so nearly Donald's when a certain noble man, disdaining to see so bad a cause have good successe, struck in for the king and turned the fortunes of the day. When the king inquired about the knight who had done such valuable service, somebody exclaimed 'Sholto du glasse!'...'Behold the black gray man!'."" In the story of Sholto Douglas, his"
"some as ""England's greatest sporting gentleman"". He was a founding member and first president of the National Sporting Club and he donated the original Lonsdale Belts in 1909 for the boxing championship trophy. His name was later given to the Lonsdale clothing brand of boxing garments and the Lonsdale cigar size. Lonsdale was part of the famous wager with John Pierpont Morgan over whether a man could circumnavigate the globe and remain unidentified. He enjoyed foxhunting, serving as Master of The Quorn from 1893 to 1898 and of the Cottesmore Hunt for long periods. He was also a keen football"
"international levels. His family emigrated to Dunedin, New Zealand, in about 1870. In 1882 he began work as a brass-finisher for A. & T. Burt, retiring in 1945. In 1887 he joined the Dunedin City Fire Brigade as an auxiliary fireman, and remained a member for most of his adult life. He was survived by four daughters and three sons, and by his wife, who died on 7 June 1955 at the age of 86. Alexander Downes Alexander Dalziel Downes (2 February 1868 in Emerald Hill, Melbourne – 10 February 1950 in Dunedin, Otago), he was a noted sportsman at"
"set up across the country, featuring team matches between snooker clubs. Table Tennis is, according to Sport England a widely participated physical activity with c 200000 participants and a large number of regional clubs enrolled to English Table Tennis Association https://www.statista.com/statistics/490344/table-tennis-participation-uk Darts is another British centred sport with an assured place in the attention of the British sporting public. The two rival Darts World Championships have been held in the United Kingdom since their inception. The BDO World Championship began in 1978 and the first PDC World Championship was in 1994. Phil Taylor of Stoke has won more World Championships"
"Arthur Douglas (sportsman) Arthur Douglas (16 August 1902 in Belfast, Ireland – 27 June 1937 in Belfast) was an Irish cricketer and Rugby Union player. A right-handed batsman and right-arm fast-medium bowler, he made his debut for the Ireland cricket team in July 1925 against Scotland in a first-class match. He went on to play for Ireland on 13 occasions, his last match coming against the MCC at Lord's in August 1933. Of his matches for Ireland, seven had first-class status. Six of these were against Scotland, the other was against Wales. In all matches for Ireland, he scored 343"
"youngest son, Sholto Douglas Sholto Douglas was the mythical progenitor of Clan Douglas, a powerful and warlike family in medieval Scotland. A mythical battle took place: ""in 767, between King ""Solvathius"" rightful king of Scotland and a pretender ""Donald Bane"". The victory was so nearly Donald's when a certain noble man, disdaining to see so bad a cause have good successe, struck in for the king and turned the fortunes of the day. When the king inquired about the knight who had done such valuable service, somebody exclaimed 'Sholto du glasse!'...'Behold the black gray man!'."" In the story of Sholto"
"although not selected for any test appearances, and also for the Barbarians tours of 1961 and 1965. He was a successful Rugby Sevens player. In later life he became a racehorse owner. His horse ""Rubstic"" won the 1979 Grand National. His elder son Struan Douglas is a Scottish Rugby League international and his younger son Nigel Douglas played rugby for Scottish School boys, premier rugby for Dundee HSRFP and district rugby for North and Midlands. John Douglas (rugby player) John Douglas (born 18 December 1934, Woolwich) was a Scottish international rugby player. He was educated at Stewart's Melville College in"
"Second XI (1925–1933) and Minor Counties North (1927). Douglas died in December 1971 in Paignton, Devon. Stanley Douglas Joseph Stanley Douglas (4 April 1903 – 27 December 1971) was an English first-class cricketer, who played 23 matches for Yorkshire County Cricket Club between 1925 and 1934. Born in Bradford, Yorkshire, England, Douglas was a left arm medium fast bowler, who took 49 wickets at 26.73 each, with a best of 6 for 59 against Oxford University. His only five wicket haul in the County Championship was his 5 for 48 against Essex. A left-handed tail ender, he scored 125 runs"
"on his initials JWHT ""Johnny Won't Hit Today"" by Australian hecklers. He captained the school teams at Felsted and was a member of Wanstead C.C. He played for Essex in 1902 and for London County in 1903. In 1904 he returned to Essex where he remained, captaining the side from 1911 to 1928. He played for England before and after the First World War. Douglas was named as a Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 1915, but play was suspended during the war years. After the war until 1923 had to carry Essex's bowling on his shoulders except when George"
"the name Douglas in addition to his own. He never returned to India, but was promoted in due course to be major-general on 20 June 1854, lieutenant-general on 18 March 1856, and full general on 9 April 1865. In March 1865 he was made a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath in recognition of his long services during the early years of the century. He died at Stonebyres in Lanarkshire in October 1868. Footballer Jimmy Johnstone, affectionately known as 'Jinky', played for Celtic and the Scotland national team and was born and lived in Viewpark throughout his life."
"over 3,000 spectators. The sport remained popular throughout the century with notable personalities known to play the sport including preacher John Elias and future prime minister, David Lloyd George. The sport continued to be played until the second half of the nineteenth century, but was beginning to be replaced by other sports. The game survived in the Aberavon area until the death of Theodore Talbot, the captain of the Margam Bando Boys in 1876. Talbot, the son of Christopher Rice Mansel Talbot and heir to the Margam Estate was a supporter of the sport, and his death coincided with the"
"medals, in his role as president of the Amateur Boxing Association of England (ABA). The real referee was Eugene Corri, who did not have to give a casting vote as the two judges agreed that Douglas was a narrow winner. Douglas Jr, his father and his younger brother, Cecil ('Pickles') were all prominent referees and officials in the ABA, the last also being the leading referee in the professional sport in the 1930s. Besides his Olympic gold, Douglas also won the 1905 ABA middleweight title. Douglas was an untiring fast-medium bowler and obdurate batsman who was nicknamed with a play"
"Kent Douglas ""For the American actor sometimes known as Kent Douglass see Douglass Montgomery."" Kent Gemmell Douglas (February 6, 1936 – April 12, 2009) was a professional ice hockey defenceman and coach. Douglas started his career with the Kitchener Canucks in the Ontario Hockey Association. He spent two seasons with the Canucks and eight seasons in the American Hockey League and the Western Hockey League with the Springfield Indians, Winnipeg Warriors and the Vancouver Canucks. In Springfield, Douglas came under the tutelage of Hall of Famer Eddie Shore, the then owner of the Indians. There, Douglas learned Shore's tough defensive"
"Coal was mined there into the mid-1920s. NEC sold the properties to the Norwegian government in 1932. Douglas was elected by the Peerage of Scotland as a representative peer to the British House of Lords in 1886, serving in that position to his death on 8 October 1935. He was a landowner and resident of Conaglen House in Ardgour, Argyllshire. He served as a Deputy Lieutenant for the County of Argyll from May 1901. His eldest son, Sholto Charles, Lord Aberdour, predeceased his father on 29 September 1911. The Morton honours passed to the 19th Earl's grandson, Sholto Charles John"
"appointed a deputy lieutenant of West Lothian, and he served as Lord Lieutenant of West Lothian from 1985 to 2002. He married Mary Sheila Gibbs (1927-2016) in 1949, by whom he had three children: John Douglas, 21st Earl of Morton John Charles Sholto Douglas, 21st Earl of Morton (19 March 1927 – 5 March 2016) was a Scottish peer and landowner. Douglas was the son of Hon. Charles William Sholto Douglas and Florence Timson. He was educated at Bryanston School and Canford School. He succeeded to the earldom in 1976, upon the death of his first cousin, the 20th Earl."
"John Douglas (rugby player) John Douglas (born 18 December 1934, Woolwich) was a Scottish international rugby player. He was educated at Stewart's Melville College in Edinburgh and first played rugby for the school XV. During his National Service he played for the B.A.O.R and when back in civilian life played for Blackheath. He returned to Scotland and played for Stewart's Melville Former Pupils RFC and Edinburgh before his first cap for Scotland in 1961. He was capped twelve times as No 8 for Scotland between 1961 and 1963. He took part in the 1962 British Lions tour to South Africa,"
"John Carlos John Wesley Carlos (born June 5, 1945) is an American former track and field athlete and professional football player. He was the bronze-medal winner in the 200 meters at the 1968 Summer Olympics, and his Black Power salute on the podium with Tommie Smith caused much political controversy. He went on to tie the world record in the 100-yard dash and beat the 200 meters world record (although the latter achievement was never certified). After his track career, he enjoyed a brief stint in the Canadian Football League but retired due to injury. He became involved with the"
"second game of the 1887 Championship, away to Scotland, which Wales again lost. Four years after the end of his international playing career, Douglas began his international refereeing career. Douglas was chosen to referee the 1891 Home Nations Championship match between Ireland and England at Lansdowne Road. His second match as referee was in 1894, in a match between England and Ireland played this time at the Rectory Field. His final two international games as a referee were both between England and Scotland, in 1896 and 1903. The 1903 match was of particular note, as it saw the only appearance"
"Stanley Douglas Joseph Stanley Douglas (4 April 1903 – 27 December 1971) was an English first-class cricketer, who played 23 matches for Yorkshire County Cricket Club between 1925 and 1934. Born in Bradford, Yorkshire, England, Douglas was a left arm medium fast bowler, who took 49 wickets at 26.73 each, with a best of 6 for 59 against Oxford University. His only five wicket haul in the County Championship was his 5 for 48 against Essex. A left-handed tail ender, he scored 125 runs at 6.94, with a best score of 19 against Hampshire. He also played for the Yorkshire"
"department sport up to 1900. Throughout the latter part of the 20th century, multiple Cambridge and Oxford Blues represented Great Britain. Blues of particular note include 1988 Gold Medal winning captain Richard Dodds who Captained Cambridge in 1981 and GB Hockey Manager & Player Bernie Cotton who gained Blues at Cambridge from 1967-69. Former Oxford Blue, Dan Fox represented Great Britain at both the London and Rio Olympic Games. Former GB striker John Shaw is the current Oxford University Hockey Club coach. According to leading UK Hockey Magazine 'Push Hockey', Oxford and Cambridge Universities have been the leading feeder to"