Old Q: talk by David Fleming

Date/Time
Date(s) - Monday 13 October 2025
8:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Location
Duke Street Church

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William Douglas, 4th Duke of Queensbury, portrayed by Thomas Rowlandson in A Worn Out Debauchée (1790)

David will speak to us about William Douglas, 4th Duke of Queensberry (1724–1810),  popularly known as Old Q. Arguably the town of Richmond’s most disreputable 18th-century resident, he was a clubman and a devotee of The Turf and had a reputation as a womaniser, a lecher, a high-stakes gambler and, not least, a cheat.