James Douglas, 1st Lord Mordington

Sir James Douglas, 1st Lord Mordington (died 11 February 1656) was the second son of William Douglas, 10th Earl of Angus by his spouse Elizabeth, daughter of Laurence Oliphant, 4th Lord Oliphant. He was created, by King Charles I, a Lord of Parliament on 14 November 1641 as Lord Mordington.

He had been knighted prior to 1621, and obtained a grant from the Crown of the lands and barony of Over Mordington in Berwickshire on 24 August 1634, although he appears to have laready been in possession, as a minute of the Privy Council of Scotland records Sir James Douglas of Mordington, Alexander Lawder, brother of Robert Lawder of Edrington, Alexander Torrie in Mordington, and Patrick Torrie there, are found in dispute with George Roull, Minister at Mordington, when the latter is asking for his sureties (or cautions) to be reduced, dated April 1631.

A summons (National Archives of Scotland GD220/3/74) was issued to James, Lord Mordington, and others, charging them to compear before the Estates of Parliament on 4 June following, to answer for not "swearing and subscribing" the Solemn League and Covenant, and to "swear and subscribe it publicly in open face of Parliament", under the pains therein mentioned, dated 20 April 1644. The Presbytery were clearly not satisfied with that summons, and a Visitation (GD220/3/74) to the Kirk of Mordingtoun by the Presbytery of Chirnsyde was made in order to get him to conform to the Ordinance of the Commissioners of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland "that James Lord Mordingtoun, in the face of God's kirk, should renounce Popery, swear and subscribe the Confession of Faith and also the Solemn League and Covenant, which his Lordship did. Mordington Kirk, May 23, 1644".

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