Dr Charles Edward Douglas, LL.D., M.D., F.R.C.S.ED.
The death at St. Andrews of Charles Edward Douglas not only
deprives the Scottish profession of one of its most respected and
popular senior members but also robs both the medical charities of a
highly valued supporter. After qualifying M.B. at Edinburgh
University in 1877 he went on to the M.D. in 1881, the F.R.C.S.Ed.
in 1898, and the D.P.H. in 1894. He had been resident surgeon at the
Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh, and assistant physician at Morningside
Mental Hospital.
He volunteered with the 1st City of Edinburgh Volunteer Rifle
Corps 1873-1877
An enthusiastic Volunteer, he served in the
South African War and in the war of 1914-18, reached the rank of
lieutenant-colonel in the R.A.M.C.(T.), and held the Volunteer and
Territorial Decorations. He practised at Cupar in Fife for many
years and was M.O.H. for the burgh.
When the British Medical
Association held its Annual Meeting in Melbourne in 1935, Douglas
was soon the admired doyen of the company: it was supposed that he
reached the age of 80 during the outward journey, but this was
clearly a mistake, as he had just not reached 88 at his death on
Dec. 28, 1943. He was especially devoted to chess; and when he
travelled home from Marseilles by air it was said that he spent the
whole flight in the exercise of this pastime. His spare, almost
shrivelled, form threw into relef the constant activity of his mind
and body; and his instant popularity with both sexes and all ages
was a wonderful tribute to his heart as well as to his head. Douglas
was a vice-president of the Royal Medical Benevolent Fund. He was
even more of a mainstay to Epsom College, of which he was also a
vice-president, and an honorary local secretary over a period of very
many years; his own subscription was kept alive for 50 years or
more, and his collections from colleagues were further valuable
evidence of his interest in education.
C. E. Douglas had long
been a loyal B.M.A. man and did valuable work in his own
neighbourhood, at the Scottish Office, and at headquarters in
London. He was a member of the Central Council for 12 years, and of
the Scottish Committee from 1923 to 1930 (chairman 1923-5); he
represented his Division at 13 Annual Meetings of the Association,
and served on the Journal Committee, the Insurance Acts Committee,
the Ethical Committee, the Charities Committee, and the
Parliamentary Elections Committee- taking a particularly keen and
active part in the work of the last two committees through a long
period of years. He was also a member of the special committee set
up by the Council to inquire into the causation of puerperal
morbidity and mortality. At the Edinburgh Annual Meeting in 1929 he
held office as vice-president of the Section of Obstetrics and
Gynaecology. He had been president of the Fife Branch in 1914, and
in recognition of his long and distinguished service he was elected
a vice-president of the B.M.A. in 1936.
On his retirement in 1927, when he celebrated the jubilee of his
entry into general practice, Dr. Douglas received the honorary
degree of LL.D. from Edinburgh University. He then made his home at
St. Andrews. where he took a deep interest in the history of the
town and in the administration of St. Andrews Episcopal Church; he
was also a member of the Representative Council of the Scottish
Episcopal Church. When he left Cupar a public ceremony was held in
his honour, at which the Lord-Lieutenant of the County, Sir Ralph
Anstruther. Bt., handed him a number of gifts from his many friends
in Fife.
b c1855 at Cannanore in South- India, the son of
Col. Walter Douglas of the Madras Staff Corps
Married, c1880,
the youngest daughter of Dr James Mackie, possibly in Cupar, Fife.
His wife died in 1939 after 57 years of married life; they were
a most devoted couple, extremely happy in their home life. Of his
two daughters one, Dr. Dorothy Douglas, is in medical practice in
St. Andrews; the other is sub-prioress of the Convent at Bruges, so
is for the time being (?1943) completely cut off from home.
Charles Edward Douglas died on 28th December 1943
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