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]
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]
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.
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]