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.

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 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, 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 ST. LEGER, brother of John St. Leger Douglas (qv); b.; adm. (aged 9) Jan 1742/3 (Smalridge's); left 1748; Ensign, 3rd Foot Guards 12 Jun 1753; Lieut. and Capt. in Army 3 Sep 1756; Lieut. and Capt., 3rd Foot Guards 5 Jun 1758; Lieut. -Col. in Army 26 Jan 1763; Capt. and Lieut. -Col., 3rd Foot Guards 25 Mar 1768; retd. 1773; British Consul in Naples 28 Aug. 1779 until his death; knighted 20 Apr. 1785; d. 6 May 1795.

DOUGLAS, GEORGE, son of Andrew Douglas, Great Suffolk Street, London, and Mary (Mercer ?) (IGI); bapt. St. Martin’s in the Fields 1 Mar 1754 (IGI); in school list Jun 1764; KS (aged 13) 1767; elected head to Ch. Ch. Oxford 1772, matr. 17 Jun 1772, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1772 - void 29 Jun 1782; BA 1776; MA 1779; adm. Middle Temple 26 Jun 1770. [father perhaps Paymaster to Treasurer of Navy ?]

DOUGLAS, CHARLES, EARL OF DRUMLANRIG, younger son of Charles Douglas, 3rd Duke of Queensberry (S) and 2nd Duke of Dover (GB) PC, Lord Justice General of Scotland, and Lady Catherine Hyde, second dau. of Henry Hyde, 4th Earl of Clarendon; b. 17 Jul 1726; at Winchester Coll. 1734-41; adm. Feb 1741/2 (Preston's); left 1744; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 30 May 1745; MP Dumfriesshire Jul 1747 - 18 Nov 1755; styled Lord Charles Douglas to 1754, becoming Earl of Drumlanrig by courtesy on his elder brother’s death 19 Oct 1754; at Lisbon at date of the great earthquake of 1 Nov 1755; member, Society of Dilettanti 1753; d. unm. 24 Oct 1756.

Doughty, Peter Arthur, son of Donald Arthur Doughty of Streatham and Evelyn Grace, d. of Henry Edward Merry; b. 12 July 1936; adm. Sept. 1949 (A); left July 1954; a computer consult.; m. 29 Feb. 1964 Judie Francis Elizabeth Barrow; d. 28 Apr. 2006.

Doswell, Algernon Michael, son of Algernon George Doswell, accountant, of Sydenham, Kent; b. 1 June 1918; adm. Sept. 1931 (G); left July 1936; Univ. of Lond., fenced for the University 1939; MN radio officer, lost in the Norwegian SS Polyana, sunk by enemy action Apr. 1941.

Algernon Michael Doswell was born at Torquay, Devon on the 1st of June 1918 the only son of George Algernon Doswell, an accountant for a railway company, and Hilda Elizabeth (nee Fortune) Doswell of 17, Crescent Wood Road, Camberwell in Kent, later of 22, Ingleby Road, Ilford in Essex. He was educated at Westminster School where he was up Grant’s from September 1931 to July 1936. He was a member of the Fencing team in 1934 and 1935, winning the Foil Medal in 1935, and was appointed as Captain. He represented the school in the Public Schools Fencing Championship in April 1934. He went on to the University of London where he studied Architecture and fenced for the university in 1939.
He trained as a wireless operator with the General Post Office from the 6th of May 1940 before enlisting in the Merchant Navy. He was posted to the steam merchant SS Polyana.
The SS Polyana, under the command of Master Karl Jacobsen, set sail from Sutherland on the 22nd of March 1941 bound for Oban where she was to join a convoy. She set sail from Oban on the 7th of April 1941 as part of Convoy OG-58 but detached from the convoy on the 14th of April 1941 and sailed on unescorted bound for Freetown where she was due to arrive on the 30th of April.
At 11.57pm on the 24th of April 1941, the SS Polyana was sailing alone, about 250 miles to the west south west of Cape Verde Island, when the U Boat U-103, under the command of Korvettenkapitän Viktor Schütze, fired a torpedo at her which missed. At 12.38am on the 25th of April 1941 U-103 fired a second torpedo which struck her close to the bridge and she sank about one minute later with the loss of her entire crew of twenty five.
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission record the date of his death as having occurred on the 23rd of April 1941 but all other records have the loss of the SS Polyana as having occurred on the 25th of April 1941.
He is commemorated on the Tower Hill Memorial Panel 82.

DORRIEN-MAGENS, JOHN, only son of Magens Dorrien-Magens MP, Hammerwood, East Grinstead, Surrey, and Hon. Henrietta Cecilia de Cardonnel, eldest sister of George Talbot Rice, 3rd Baron Dinevor (qv); b. 8 Feb 1803; adm. 31 May 1815 (Packharness'); left 29 Jul 1818; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 13 Apr 1821; a banker, firm Dorrien, Magens, Magens, Mello & Co, Finch Lane, London; m. 24 Apr 1828 Mary Stephana, dau. of Lieut. -Col. Thomas Rudsdell, 61st Foot; d. 7 May 1879.