Claude Douglas (23 August 1852 - 9 June 1945) was
Consulting Surgeon to the Infirmary in Bradford
Claude Douglas
was born at Bradford, Yorkshire, the seventh child and third son of
James Douglas, MD, LSA in practice there, and Sarah Herbert Rodgers, his
wife, daughter of James Rodgers of Edinburgh and Kilmarnock. He was
educated at The Grange, Thorp Ash, and St George's Hospital, London.
He qualified in 1873, and after serving as surgeon to the Leicester
Provident Dispensary from 1879 to 1886 he was elected in that year
surgeon to the Royal Infirmary, Leicester, an office which he held till
1911, when he retired as consulting surgeon. He had taken the Fellowship
in 1888.
During the war of 1914-18 Douglas returned to hospital
duty, serving with the rank of lieutenant-colonel, RAMC(T) at the 5th
Northern General Hospital, Leicester. Douglas was a referee under the
Workmen's Compensation Act. He was president of the Midland branch of
the British Medical Association in 1901, and vice- president of the
section of surgery at the Association's annual meeting of 1905 at
Leicester.
After retiring from practice Douglas lived at
Silchester, East Cowes, Isle of Wight, and latterly at 15 Marston Ferry
Road, Oxford, where his son was professor of general metabolism.
Douglas married in 1878 Louisa Bolitho Peregrine, daughter of Thomas
Peregrine, MD, MRCP, of Halfmoon Street, London, W. Mrs Douglas survived
him with a daughter and a son, Professor
Claude Gordon Douglas, CMG, MC, FRS, DM, Fellow of St John's
College, Oxford. Their elder son, James Sholto Cameron Douglas, DM
Oxford, professor of pathology in the University of Sheffield, died in
1931.
Douglas died ten weeks before his ninety-third birthday.
Mrs Douglas died on 6 July 1950 at Oxford, in her ninety-fourth year.
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