John Charles Sholto Douglas, 21st Earl of Morton (19 March 1927 – 5 March 2016)[1] was a Scottish peer and landowner.
Douglas was the son of Hon. Charles William Sholto Douglas and Florence Timson, daughter of Edith Theodosia Glyn and Henry Thomas Timson.[2] He was educated at Bryanston School and Canford School. He succeeded to the earldom in 1976, upon the death of his first cousin, the 20th Earl. Morton was a property consultant, a partner in Dalmahoy Farms and chairman of the Edinburgh Polo Club, and was a director in Scotland of the Bristol & West Building Society. In 1982, he was appointed a deputy lieutenant of West Lothian, and he served as Lord Lieutenant of West Lothian from 1985 to 2002.[3]
He married Mary Sheila Gibbs (1927-2016) in 1949, by whom he had three children:[4]