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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.

DOUGLAS, CHARLES; b.; adm. 14 Mar 1785. [Doubtless kin (brother ?) of William Douglas, adm. same day]. [Identified by Whitmore as Charles Douglas, 3rd Baron Douglas, second son of Archibald James Edward Douglas, 1st Baron Douglas (qv); b. 26 Oct 1775; at Eton Coll. 1785-92; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 30 Apr 1793; BA 1797; MA 1803; migr. to All Souls Coll., Fellow 1803-34; adm. Lincoln’s Inn [check date], called to bar 26 May 1802; MP Lanark 12 Aug 1830-2; succ. brother as 3rd Baron Douglas 27 Jan 1844; d. unm. 10 Sep 1848]

DOUGLAS, HON. FREDERICK SYLVESTER NORTH, only son of Sylvester Douglas, 1st Baron Glenbervie PC KC FRS FSA, and Hon. Catherine Anne North, eldest dau. of Frederick North, Lord North PC KG MP (afterwards 2nd Earl of Guilford), Prime Minister and First Lord of the Treasury; b. 8 Feb 1791; adm. 4 [or 5] Mar 1801; left 1805; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 24 Oct 1806, Canoneer Student; 1st cl. Classics 1809; BA and MA 1813; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 1 Dec 1807; MP Banbury from 1812; FRS 1 May 1817; author, An essay on certain points of resemblance between the Ancient and Modern Greeks, 1813; m. 19 Jul 1819 Harriet, eldest dau. of William Wrightson MP, Cusworth, Yorkshire; d. 21 Oct 1819. DNB.

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

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, 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.