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Douglas, James, 1734-1746
GB-2014-WSA-06310 · Person · 1734-1746

DOUGLAS, HON. JAMES, brother of Sholto Charles Douglas, 14th Earl of Morton (qv); b. 6 Oct 1734; adm. Sep 1744 (Lloyd's); d. at school 9 Aug 1746.

Douglas, James, 1798-1818
GB-2014-WSA-06311 · Person · 1798-1818

DOUGLAS, JAMES, son of Adm. James Douglas, Berkeley Street, Portman Square, and his first wife Elizabeth, widow of Capt. --- Riddell, Royal Navy, and dau. of Capt. Robert Scott, Royal Navy [identity of mother doubtful, as no Capt. Riddell RN readily identifiable and the only Capt. Robert Scott RN was too young to be her father; but IGI suggests surname was Reddall, in which case her husband was presumably Capt. Ambrose Reddall, Royal Navy, and Reddall could have been son-in-law of Lieut. Robert Scott, Royal Navy]; b. 4 Jan 1798; adm. 23 Mar 1808; left Midsummer 1810; at Haileybury Coll. 1814; Cadet, EICS Bengal 1814; Ensign, 4th Native Infantry 5 May 1816; d. near Sambalpur, Bengal 11 Oct 1818.

Douglas, James, fl. 1768
GB-2014-WSA-06312 · Person · fl. 1768

DOUGLAS, JAMES; b.; adm. 19 Feb 1768. [Doubtless kin (brother ?) of John Douglas, adm. same day].

GB-2014-WSA-06313 · Person · ca. 1732-1783

DOUGLAS, JOHN ST. LEGER, eldest son of John Douglas, St. Kitts, West Indies, and Susanna, widow of Richard Holmes, and dau. of Michael Lambert, Governor of St. Kitts; b.; adm. (aged 10) Jan 1742/3 (Smalridge's); left 1748; Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. fellow commoner 22 Oct 1748, did not matr.; MP Hindon 1768-74, Weobley from 1774; m. 1st; m. 2nd, 30 Dec 1765 Caroline Otway; d. 23 May 1783. [second wife perhaps a sister of Charles Otway (qv)]

Douglas, John, 1805-1834
GB-2014-WSA-06314 · Person · 1805-1834

DOUGLAS, JOHN, elder son of Rev. William Douglas, Precentor and Canon Residentiary of Salisbury, and Prebendary of Westminster, and Anne, second dau. of Baron --- de Brackel, Yverdun, Switzerland; b. 1 Jan 1805; adm. 25 Jun 1817 (Packharness'); left 27 Apr 1819; at Charterhouse Sch., foundation scholar 1819-25; Balliol Coll. Oxford, matr. 18 Mar 1825, aged 19; Ensign, 64th Foot 12 Dec 1826; Lieut., 29 Jul 1830; d. unm. at Port Royal, Jamaica 20 Aug 1834.

Douglas, John, ca. 1702-?
GB-2014-WSA-06315 · Person · ca. 1702-?

DOUGLAS, JOHN; b.; adm. (aged 13) Oct 1715.

Douglas, John, fl. 1768
GB-2014-WSA-06316 · Person · fl. 1768

DOUGLAS, JOHN; b.; adm. 19 Feb 1768. [Doubtless kin (brother ?) of James Douglas, adm. same day].

GB-2014-WSA-06317 · Person · 1701-1725

DOUGLAS, LORD GEORGE, fourth son of James Douglas, 2nd Duke of Queensberry (S) and 1st Duke of Dover (GB), and Hon. Mary Boyle, fourth dau. of Charles Boyle, Lord Clifford; b. 20 Feb 1701; at school 1715-7; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 11 May 1719; Grand Tour (Italy) 1722-3; d. unm. in Paris c. 1725, at age 24.

GB-2014-WSA-06318 · Person · ca. 1732-1774

DOUGLAS, SHOLTO CHARLES, 15TH EARL OF MORTON (S), second son of James Douglas, 14th Earl of Morton (S) KT FRS FSA, President Royal Society, and his first wife Agatha, dau. of James Halyburton, Pitcur, Forfarshire; b.; adm. (aged 8) Apr 1740 (Lloyd's); left 1747; styled Lord Aberdour 1738-68; Glasgow Univ. 1748, Leyden Univ. 1751; raised a corps of Light Dragoons, of which he was Capt. -Commandant 19 Dec 1759; half-pay from 1763; one of the Lords of Police, Scotland from 1760; succ. father as 15th Earl of Morton (S) 12 Oct 1768; in Italy for health 1773-4; m. 19 Nov 1758 Katherine, fourth dau. of Hon. John Hamilton; d. at Taormina, Sicily 25 Sep 1774.

GB-2014-WSA-06319 · Person · 1849-1864

DOUGLAS, WILLIAM ANTHONY JOHN, son of Lawrence Brown Douglas, advocate, Sheriff Substitute, Cupar, Fifeshire, and Eliza Parkinson, dau. of Capt. Colin Gib, Royal Navy, St. Anns, Brechin, Forfarshire; b. 21 Nov 1849; adm. 10 Apr 1863; left Whitsun 1864.