Henry Douglas (bishop) explained

Honorific Prefix:The Right Reverend
Henry Alexander Douglas
Office:Bishop of Bombay
Term Start:1869
Term End:1875
Predecessor:John Harding
Successor:Louis George Mylne
Office1:Dean of Cape Town
Term Start1:1866
Term End1:1869
Predecessor1:William Newman
Successor1:Charles Barnett-Clarke
Birth Name:Henry Alexander Douglas
Education:Sherborne School
Alma Mater:Balliol College, Oxford
Relations:John Douglas (brother)
Sir William Douglas, 4th Baronet (grandfather)
Charles Douglas, 6th Marquess of Queensberry (uncle)
John Douglas, 7th Marquess of Queensberry (uncle)

Henry Alexander Douglas (22 February 1821 – 13 December 1875)[1] was the third Bishop of Bombay from 1869 to 1875.[2]

Early life

Born into a noble family[3] he was a son of Henry Alexander Douglas of Lockerbie and Elizabeth Dalzell, who both died in 1837. Among his siblings were John Douglas, 7th Premier of Queensland and Robert Johnstone-Douglas (father of Arthur Johnstone-Douglas). His father was the third son of Sir William Douglas, 4th Baronet of Kelhead, and was a brother of the sixth and seventh Marquesses of Queensberry.

Douglas was educated at Sherborne and Balliol College, Oxford.[4]

Career

He was Vicar of Abbotsley (1849-55), then Dean of Cape Town before his elevation to the episcopate, he was a "moderate high churchman". He died on 13 December 1875 and his papers published posthumously.[5]

His successor as Dean of Cape Town was a long serving Charles Barnett-Clarke.

Personal life

On 20 November 1849, Douglas married Eliza Hoskins, daughter of James Hoskins. Together, they were the parents of:

Douglas died on 13 December 1875 at age 54.[6]

Notes and References

  1. [The Times]
  2. Book: Chatterton, Eyre . Eyre Chatterton . A History of the Church of England in India: Since the Early Days of the East India Company. 1924. Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge.
  3. http://www.thepeerage.com/p2064.htm Noble provenance
  4. Web site: The Sherborne Register 1550-1950. Old Shirbirnian Society. 16 February 2019.
  5. Book: Douglas, Henry Alexander . Sermons delivered by the Right Rev. Henry Alexander Douglas, Bishop of Bombay. 1861. Darnell and Murray.
  6. Mosley, Charles, editor. Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes. Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003, volume 3, page 3236.