James Scott-Douglas, 6th Baronet

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The Jaguar C-Type with the original starting number 19. With this car, James Scott Douglas and Guy Gale finished second overall in the 1953 Spa-Francorchamps 24-hour race
Cockpit of the Jaguar C-Type

Sir James Louis Fitzroy Scott-Douglas, 6th Baronet (born October 24, 1930 in Malmesbury , † July 16, 1969 ) was a British nobleman and racing driver .

Youth and military time

He came from a branch line of the noble Douglas family . He was the son of George Scott-Douglas (1898-1930) and Lady Blanche Somerset, daughter of Henry Somerset, 9th Duke of Beaufort . With the childless death of his great-uncle Sir George Brisbane Scott-Douglas, 5th Baronet, he inherited his title of nobility, Baronet , of Maxwell in the County of Roxburgh, created in 1786 at the age of five .

He attended Wellington College in Crowthorne, Berkshire . He then joined the British Army , served in various tank units and rose to the rank of lieutenant .

Racing career

He suffered from a birth defect throughout his life that made it almost impossible to maintain his weight. The periods of strict diet that were repeatedly necessary shortened his career to the years between 1952 and 1954. Scott Douglas primarily drove sports car races for the Scottish racing team Ecurie Ecosse . With their Jaguar XK 120 he achieved good results in national and international races in 1952. At the Grand Prix de Reims he came third behind Stirling Moss (also in a Jaguar XK 120) and Guy Mairesse (Talbot T26GS). At the first 1000 km race on the Nürburgring in 1953 , he finished tenth overall with Ninian Sanderson .

He achieved his best race result at the Spa-Francorchamps 24-hour race in 1953 , where he and his partner Guy Gale finished second overall in a Jaguar C-Type . In 1953 he was registered for Ecurie Ecosse in three Formula 1 races without world championship status. Twelfth place in the 1953 Ulster Trophy in the Connaught Type A was his best result.

James Scott Douglas lived as a playboy on a yacht in Monaco for many years . When he ran out of money, he tried his hand at smuggling arms to Africa, but failed just as much as his attempt as a farmer in Argentina. Impoverished and very overweight, he spent the last few years of his life working as an ad seller for the Daily Express . He died of a heart attack in the summer of 1969 . In the absence of male heirs, his title of nobility expired on his death.

statistics

Individual results in the sports car world championship

season team race car 1 2 3 4th 5 6th 7th
1953 Ecurie Ecosse Jaguar C-Type
Jaguar XK 120 		United StatesUnited States SEB ItalyItaly MIM FranceFrance LEM BelgiumBelgium SPA GermanyGermany ONLY United KingdomUnited Kingdom RTT MexicoMexico CAP
2 10
1954 Ecurie Ecosse
Leslie Brooke 		Jaguar C-Type
Triumph TR2 		ArgentinaArgentina BUA United StatesUnited States SEB ItalyItaly MIM FranceFrance LEM United KingdomUnited Kingdom RTT MexicoMexico CAP
4th 22nd

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Baronetage: DOUGLAS of Maxwell, Roxburgh at Leigh Rayment's Peerage
  2. ↑ 1952 Reims Grand Prix
  3. ↑ Michael Behrndt, Jörg-Thomas Födisch, Matthias Behrndt: ADAC 1000 km race . Heel Verlag, Königswinter 2008, ISBN 978-3-89880-903-0 .
  4. ↑ 1953 Ulster Trophy
predecessor Office successor
George Scott-Douglas Baronet, of Maxwell
1935-1969 		Title expired
personal data
SURNAME Scott-Douglas, James, 6th Baronet
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Scott-Douglas, Sir James Louis Fitzroy, 6th Baronet (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British nobleman and racing car driver
DATE OF BIRTH October 24, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Malmesbury
DATE OF DEATH July 16, 1969