English aristocrat and politician Lord Francis Douglas, Viscount Drumlanrig, was BOTD in 1867. Born in London, he was the eldest son of the 9th Marquess of Queensberry, a noted bully and notorious homophobe. As heir apparent to the As heir apparent to the marquessate, Francis used the courtesy title Viscount Drumlanrig. He was educated at Harrow and at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. In 1887, he served as a lieutenant in the 2nd Battalion of the Coldstream Guards in the British Army. In 1892, he was appointed private secretary to the Liberal politician Lord Rosebery, becoming intimate friends and possibly lovers. Under Rosebery’s patronage, he was created Baron Kelhead, given a seat in the House of Lords and later appointed a Lord-in-waiting. His elevation to Parliament caused a feud with Queensberry, who was furious at being outranked by his son. In 1894, Rosebery became Prime Minister. Later that year, Francis died in a hunting accident that may have been suicide. He was 27. Queensberry led a sustained vendetta against Rosebery, accusing him of corrupting Francis, and threatened to expose him as a sodomite unless the government prosecuted Oscar Wilde, the lover of Queensberry’s younger son Lord Alfred Douglas. Rosebery’s resignation, timed just three months after Francis’ death and a month after Wilde’s conviction for gross indecency, was arguably an attempt to avoid his affair with Francis being revealed. As Francis died unmarried and without children, his title was inherited by his brother Lord Percy Douglas, following Queensberry’s death in 1900.