Sholto Douglas, 15th Earl of Morton

Sholto Charles Douglas, 15th Earl of Morton (c. 1732–25 September 1774) was the son of James Douglas, 14th Earl of Morton.

In February 1754 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society ^[1]

On 19 November 1758, he married Katherine Hamilton and they had two sons:

• George Douglas, 16th Earl of Morton (1761–1827)
• Lt. Hon. Hamilton Douglas Halyburton (10 October 1763 – 31 December 1783) Lt. Hamilton died of exposure while commanding the barge of HMS Assistance, which was caught in a snowstorm while going to look for deserters and wrecked on Sandy Hook.^[2][3]

Notes

1. "Library and Archive Catalogue". Royal Society. Retrieved 28 November 2010.
2. Weintraub, Stanley (2003). General Washington's Christmas Farewell. ISBN 0-7432-4654-3. The next morning, the bodies of all but one of them, including Lieutenant Hamilton Douglas Haliburton, brother of the Earl of Morton, washed up on a beach ...
3. "Admiralty Acknowledges Kindness in Burying Bodies of Officers Frozen in 1783.". New York Times. 6 September 1908. Retrieved 23 January 2009. Fourteen from the Assistance Searching for Deserters Died. French Vandals Destroyed Their Monument. The Admiralty has issued a notice recalling a lamentable and unfortunate occurrence which took place in December, 1783, just after the declaration of peace with the United States of America. The circumstance is thus describe in Brenton's "Naval History," (Vol. I., Page 261, 1837,) although the date is incorrectly given, probably a misprint.