Lord David Douglas-Hamilton

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Squadron Leader The Lord David Douglas-Hamilton (b. 1912- k. 1944) was a Scottish nobleman and pilot.

The youngest son of Lt. Alfred Douglas-Hamilton, 13th Duke of Hamilton RN and Nina Mary Benita Poore.

Douglas-Hamilton was one of four brothers who made history by simultaneously being at the rank of Squadron Leader or above at the outset of World War II.

Educated at Harrow, and Balliol College, Oxford. Douglas-Hamilton saw active service between 1939 and 1944, flying Spitfires in Operation Torch over Malta. On return to Britain, he was killed whilst carrying out reconnaissance over the French coast, and crashed in southern England.

[edit] Marriage and issue

In 1938 he married Ann Prunella Stack, the founder of the Women's League for Health and Beauty. They had two sons:

• Diarmaid Douglas-Hamilton (b.1940), an astrophysicist at Harvard University
• Iain Douglas-Hamilton (b.1942), Zoologist, also father of television presenter Saba Douglas-Hamilton

[edit] See also

• Douglas Douglas-Hamilton, 14th Duke of Hamilton
• George Nigel Douglas-Hamilton, 10th Earl of Selkirk
• Lord Malcolm Douglas-Hamilton