| Dugald McDougall | |
| Order: | 2nd |
| Office: | Mayor of Hawthorn |
| Term Start: | 1862 |
| Term End: | 1863 |
| Predecessor: | Michael O'Grady |
| Successor: | William Henry Pettett |
| Birth Date: | 7 June 1834 |
| Birth Place: | Derry, Ireland |
| Death Place: | Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia |
Dugald McDougall (7 June 1834 - 19 January 1885)[1] was an Irish-born Australian politician who served as the second Hawthorn Municipality Chairman a position which evolved into the Mayor of Hawthorn.
McDougall was born in Derry, Ireland, in 1834. He settled in the Colony of Victoria in Australia in 1852[2] and joined a business firm in which he became a partner in 1860 and in 1873 he became senior partner with the firm becoming well-known under the name Sands and McDougall largely due to his business acumen.[3]
In 1860 McDougall settled in Hawthorn where he constructed the property Summerlee in approximately 1865 and became a leading member of the local Presbyterian Church.[4] In June 1860 he was elected as one of seven inaugural members of the Hawthorn Municipal Council when the body was established,[5] and he served on the Council until 1867 serving as the Council Chairman from 1862 to 1863.[4]
In 1885 McDougall suffered a lengthy illness[2] before dying at his residence in Hawthorn.[3]
McDougall married Mary Allott Chisholm of Melbourne. One of their children was Dugald Gordon McDougall (1867-1944) who became a professor of law at the University of Sydney.[6]