James Douglas MP
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James Douglas (died 2 June 1751) was a British politician, the only
son of James Douglas(1) of Fen Court, Fenchurch St., London, merchant,
married by Aug. 1737, Albinia, 1st daughter of
Lt.-Gen. Thomas Farrington, M.P., of Chislehurst, Kent, sister of
Thomas Farrington, widow of Robert Bertie, M.P., 1st Duke of
Ancaster. He has been described as being 'of Cuffnalls(2), in
Lyndhurst, Hants'(sic).
He succeeded Henry Vane, 1st Earl of Darlington as the Member of
Parliament for St. Mawes from 1741 to 1747 and was also MP for
Malmesbury from 1747 until his death in 1751.
He was Clerk of the Household of the Prince of Wales (clerk of the
green cloth), entering
Parliament in 1741 at the Princes' expense, on Lord Falmouth's
interest.
James Douglas’s father (also James) was a younger son of
Henry Douglas of Friarshaw, Roxburghshire, grandfather of Admiral Sir James
Douglas, 1st Bt., M.P. Of his marriage the 1st Earl of
Egmont wrote on 10 Aug. 1737:
It is much wondered that
the King should take away the Duchess of Ancaster’s pension [of
£600], purely because Mr. Douglas her husband has an employment
under the Prince. She is indeed a worthless woman, and in want,
her first husband having ordered in his will that if she married
again she should have no more jointure than £400 per annum.
William Pulteney described him in December 1740 as a man
‘for whom I have a very particular regard’. For the 1741
election he was brought in by the Prince of Wales at St. Mawes
but he switched to Malmesbury in 17475 on the interest of Sir
John Rushout. In Parliament he steadily adhered to Frederick,
voting against the Administration on the chairman of the
committee of elections in 1741 but for them on the Hanoverians
in 1742, 1744 and 1746, reverting to opposition with the Prince
in 1747. In Egmont’s list of future office holders on the
Prince’s accession, drawn up c.1749-50, he is placed as one of
the clerks of the Board of Green Cloth; and on Frederick’s death
Newcastle wrote that if ‘Boone and Douglas were the clerks of
the Green Cloth [to the dowager Princess] ... it would be well
settled’.
Shortly afterwards he died, 2 June 1751.
Notes:
1. James Douglas, son of Henry Douglas of
Friarshaw (died March 1701), was baptised Edinburgh 23rd July 1674
and died 27th April 1757. He married a lady named Russell.
2. Almost certainly Cuffnells. In 1788, the
property was owned by George Rose (1744-1818), first MP for Lymington.
See also:
• Will of James Douglas, of Cuffnells [
pdf]
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