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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.
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International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition
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Prepared for import into AtoM by Westminster School Archive staff, 2019-2020
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Users should note that the information recorded here that is not to be found in the first two volumes of the Record of Old Westminsters and its first Supplement has been assembled from various published and manuscript sources by Hugh Edmund Pagan MA FSA, and all new resulting text is his copyright, © 2014.
The Record of Old Westminsters: A biographical list of all those who are known to have been educated at Westminster School from the earliest times to 1927, Volumes 1 & 2, compiled by G. F. Russell Barker and Alan H. Stenning, London, 1928.