High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! James Alexander Douglas-Hamilton, Baron Selkirk of Douglas, PC, QC (born 31 July 1942), briefly The 11th Earl of Selkirk and styled Lord James Douglas-Hamilton (as a younger son of the 14th Duke of Hamilton and Brandon) until 1997, is a Scottish Conservative politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Edinburgh West then Member of the Scottish Parliament for the Lothians.