James Sholto Cameron Douglas (1879-1931) was Professor
of pathology at Sheffield. He was the eldest son of
Claude
Douglas, honorary surgeon to Leicester Royal Infirmary, and his
wife, Louisa Bolitho Peregrine, of London. Both his grandfathers
were also in medical practice: James Douglas, L.R.C.S. (Edin.), was
Consulting Surgeon to the Infirmary in Bradford and Thomas Peregrine,
M.D. (Edin.), M.R.C.P. (London), was in practice in London.
J.S.
Douglas was an older brother of Claude
Gordon Douglas. Born in Leicester, he was educated at Wyggeston
School and at Haileybury. In 1898, he entered Christ Church, Oxford with
an exhibition and took first class in the final honours school of
physiology in 1902. Bt clinical work at St George's Hospital he
qualified BMMCh in 1905, gaining a Radcliffe Fellowship by which he
worked with Schnorl at Dresden and with Deyer at Copenhagen and Oxford.
With Dreyer, he published papers of the absorption of agglutins by
bacteria and on charcoal.
Douglas was appointed Lecturer in
Pathology at Birmingham in 1909 and moved to Manchester in 1903. In
1915, he was appointed to succeed Dean as Professor of pathology at
Sheffield. Douglas was regarded as a good teacher and a good colleague
who took his full part in administration, particularly as Dean of the
Medical School.
Douglas was elected a member of the Physiological
Society in 1909 but published no physiological work; his published work
was in pathology.
James Sholto Cameron Douglas is buried in the
Saint Tudno Church Cemetery Llandudno alongside Mary Victoire Emily
Douglas (1879-1965). Also in the same plot are Charles Edward Jewel
Whitting 1900-1973 and his wife Alexena Livingston 1911-2003 whom he
married on 8th Dec 1945 in Lagos, Nigeria.
Obituary 21 November
1931
Abstract
THE sudden death of James Sholto Cameron Douglas on
Oct. 30 at Llandudno, where he had gone to recuperate after a long
illness, was a very great grief to his many friends. Prof. Douglas was
more closely in touch with his colleagues, both scientific and medical,
than is usual in a university; for not only had he held the Joseph
Hunter chair of pathology at the University of Sheffield since 1915 and
been Dean of the Faculty of Medicine since 1923, bat his professorship
also involved him in a multitude of administrative duties, including the
direction of the pathological work at the various hospitals in the city.
In addition, he was always being called upon by his medical colleagues
for expert advice on pathological matters. Not only did he carry out his
duties with unsparing zeal, but as a most unselfish man he also
responded willingly to all demands for assistance.
Notes:
1.
Captain James Sholto Cameron Douglas. Royal Army Medical Corps. 3rd
Northern General Hospital. James Sholto Cameron Douglas, M.D., to be
Captain, whose services will be available on Mobilization. Dated 19th
July, 1915. Mention in Dispatches.
2. Royal Humane Society's
Silver Medal 1909.
3. Charles Edward Jewel Whitting had married
Mary Victoire Emily only daughter of Richard Brice, of Charlynch,
Somerset on 16th Sep 1896. Charles Edward Jewel Whitting
apparently was associated with the Royal Asiatic Society. He
may have written the book: Hausa and Fulani Proverbs published in Lagos
in 1940. He and his father (same name) were both at Trinity, University
of Cambridge.
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