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Francis Brown Douglas
This article may be conflating two generations. Any contributions will be gratefully accepted
Francis Brown Douglas was born on 2 April 1814 at Edinburgh,
Midlothian, Scotland. He was a practising advocate and held the
office of Lord Provost of Edinburgh, 1859-1862.
He made two claims for compensation for slaves held on St Vincent (But see note 3). He was awarded £6,418 15s. 6d compensation for 245 slaves on the Sans Souci estate, St Vincent.
On 7th August 1860, there took place during the provostry of Francis
Brown Douglas the Great Review before the queen and Royal family of
22,000 Scottish Volunteers, one of the grandest and most successful
public spectacles ever witnessed in Old or New Edinburgh.
A presentation portrait [may exist], possibly once exhibited at the Royal Scottish Academy. (Probably the one above) FRANCIS ARCHIBALD BROWN DOUGLAS, Ad- cate and Gentleman. Born April 17, 1854, being the eldest son of the late Francis Brown Douglas, Advocate, Lord Provost of Edinburgh in 1860, by his wife Marianne Leslie, dau. of the Hon. Alexander Leslie Melville. Armo- rial bearings— .Argent, a cinquefoil sable, within a bordure wavy ermine, on a chief gules, two mullets of the field. Mantling gules, doubled argent. Crest— On a wreath of his liveries, a hand grasping a man's heartt proper. Motto — "Sicker," Postal address — 21 Moray Place, Edinhurgh.
Educated at Edinburgh Academy; M.A. Cantab; Advocate, 1879. Address:
Charles Christie Brown Douglas, 1867-71. CI. 1-4, b, 1857; s. of
Francis Brown Douglas, Advocate, D.L., 21 Moray Place.
William Henry Brown Douglas, M.A. born 1867 was the son of Francis
Brown Douglas, Edinburgh. Studied at the Universities, Edinburgh and
Cambridge, and New College, Edinburgh. Ordained at Newton Stewart,
Princes Street, 1894. Married, the same year, Edith Grainger Stewart
Titles and British Honours: DL.
Photographs from the Maitland Dougall Photographic Collection in the care of University of St Andrews Libraries and Museums. ca. 1852 - 1880 
Note: 1. Francis Brown Douglas is shown in the genealogy database as being born in New Orchard, Dumfriesshire. 2. A Francis Brown Douglas is listed in the 1851 census as being 36 years old, a widower and the son-in-law of Christina Douglas, of Dunfermline and who was possibly born in Roxburgh. Was Christina his step-mother? 3. As heir of his grandfather Francis Brown. So, is this a reference to the next generation, and not this Francis Brown Douglas? The inventory to his grandfather's will, dated 30/03/1835, mentions a bill of £8000 granted to Mr McBarnett of the island of St Vincent "remitted to Mr William Douglas W.S. by Mr Douglas Brown Sir William Forbes & Coy on 5th Jany 1830..."
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