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14th July - John Douglas, bishop and scholar, was born on this day in 1721, in Pittenweem. Douglas was the son of a merchant and was educated in Dunbar, attaining a MA degree at Balliol College, Oxford at the age of 23.

Despite attaining high status within the church - he held the offices of Bishop of Carlisle, Dean of Windsor and Bishop of Salisbury - he was was seen as being unsuited to religious life, taking luxurious summer breaks at fashionable resorts and spending the winter months in London, where he involved himself in heated and often controversial literary arguments with writers and commentators of the day.

 

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