A study of the lived history of nineteenth-century British imperialism through the lives of one extended family in North America, the Caribbean and the United Kingdom. The prominent colonial governor ...

Lord James Douglas-Hamilton, who served as a Scottish ... Scottish Secretary Alister Jack said: "He made a lifelong contribution to British political life, serving as a councillor, MSP, MP ...

When James finally assumed the role of governing Scotland by himself in 1449 he found that the Douglas clan had a stranglehold on power that they would not give up lightly. James spent much of his ...