What Scottish nobleman and pioneering aviator is the father of James Alexander Douglas-Hamilton, Baron Selkirk of Douglas?
James Douglas-Hamilton, Baron Selkirk of Douglas James Alexander Douglas-Hamilton, Baron Selkirk of Douglas, (born 31 July 1942), briefly Earl of Selkirk (a title he disclaimed) and previously styled Lord James Douglas-Hamilton as a younger son of the 14th Duke of Hamilton and Brandon, is a Scottish Conservative politician who served as Member of Parliament for Edinburgh West and then as Member of the Scottish Parliament for the Lothians. Since 1997 he has been a member of the House of Lords as a life peer.
James Hamilton of Finnart Sir James Hamilton of Finnart (c. 1495 – 16 August 1540) was a Scottish nobleman and architect, the illegitimate son of James Hamilton, 1st Earl of Arran, and Mary (or Marion) Boyd of Bonshaw.