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Captain Richard Douglas RN
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| Date (from) |
(Date to) |
Personal |
| 1788 |
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Born |
| 22 September 1830 |
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married Jemima, daughter of William Winchester,
of Stoke |
| 1867(1) |
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Died |
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| Date |
Rank |
| 19 August 1799 |
Entered Navy |
| 18 September 1809 |
Lieutenant |
| 5 September 1823 |
Commander |
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| Date from |
Date to |
Service |
| 1831 |
1832 |
Coast Guard |
| 26 August 1840 |
1843 |
Commander (2ic) in Poictiers, commanded by
William Henry Shirreff, Chatham |
Richard Douglas was the son of John Douglas (1752-6 Feb1832 at
Woolwich), the Master
Attendant(2) at Plymouth, Sheerness (4 Sep 1819) and Deptford (Appointed 4
Nov 1823; 26 years service in 1831; salary £379 3s 4d) Royal Naval Dockyards.
Richard Douglas's son was Richard John Hardy Douglas (1831-1913) who was a
Captain in the Royal Marines Light Infantry and who fought at Sebastopol
(1854) and Canton (1857).
Richard Douglas entered the Navy, 14 Aug.
1799, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Royal George 100, Capt. Wm. Domett,
bearing the flag in the Channel of Lord Bridport, in which ship he
continued until shortly after his attainment of the rating of Midshipman,
1 Oct. 1800. In July, 1803, he re-embarked on board the Ville de Paris
110, Capt. Tristram Robt. Ricketts, flag-ship subsequently of Hon. Wm.
Cornwallis; on removing from which to the Achille 74, Capt. Rich. King, he
appears to have been wounded at the battle of Trafalgar 21 Oct. 1805, and
to have been with a squadron under Sir Sam. Hood at the capture of four
French frigates off Rochefort, 25 Sept. 1806. In Jan. 1809, Mr. Douglas
joined the Neptune 98, bearing the flag in the West Indies of Sir Alex.
Cochrane; after serving under whom at the reduction of Martinique, he was
appointed, 15 March following, Acting-Lieutenant of the Surinam brig,
Capt. John Lake. He was next transferred, in a similar capacity, to the
Intrepid 64, Capt. Geo. Andrews; and, being confirmed on 18 Sept. in the
same year, was afterwards appointed, on the Home station — 30 June, 1810,
to the Coquette, Capts. Robt. Forbes and Geo. Hewson — 3 Dec. 1811, to the
Bellona 74, Capts. John Erskine Douglas
and Geo. McKinley — and 21 Nov. 1814, and 7 Dec. 1815, to the Namur and
Bulwark 74’s, flag-ships of Sir Chas. Rowley, in which he successively
served until 21 Oct. 1817. His next appointments were — 20 Nov. 1820, to
the Coast Blockade, as Supernumerary Lieutenant of the Severn 40, Capt.
Wm. McCulloch; and, 22 Jan. 1822, to the Coast Guard. Acquiring the rank
he now holds 5 Sept. 1823, Commander Douglas, in 1831-2, again served in
the Coast Guard, and from 26 Aug. 1840, until the autumn of 1843,
commanded the Poictiers 72, guard-ship at Chatham. He has not been since
employed.
Richard Douglas is listed on the
Trafalgar Roll because he was at Trafalgar serving on the Achille as a
midshipman. He also fought at Martinique at 1809 on the Neptune. His Navy
General Service medal with the clasp for Trafalgar exists but
unfortunately the one for Martinique is missing.
His first wife,
Ann McArthur(3),
died at Mutley, co. Devon, in 1825. He married, 22 Sept. 1830, Jemima, daughter of Wm.
Winchester, Esq., of Stoke, niece of Alderman Winchester, M.P., of
Hawkhurst, and sister-in-law of Commander Wm. Walker, R.N., by whom he has
issue.
According to his Will, he had a daughter, Elizabeth(4) and
sons, Richard John Hardy Douglas (1831-1913) and Joseph. According
to The Gentleman’s Magazine 1824, Volume 135 page 477, he also had a
daughter, Mary, who predeceased him in 1824.
Richard Douglas
had a sister called Mary Douglas who died on 24 April 1824 at her father's
house in Deptford, at
which point she was the widow of Captain Robert Gordon Thomson of the 37th
Reg. (from The Gentleman’s Magazine, Volume 135 page 477). They had
married in about 1815. She was born around 1790.
He was an
author/editor.
Notes:
1. According to his
gravestone, he died aged 78 in 1866. He was buried in Ladywell Cemetery,
Lewisham, London, England, alongside his wife, jemima, (1805-1882)
2.
In 1819, a John Douglas was Master attendant in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
(Appointed 1815)
3. Ann's brother was Hannibal
Hawkins McArthur, an early Australian colonist, politician, businessman
and wool pioneer
4. Elizabeth Mary Douglas who was born in
Mutley, an area of Plymouth, in about 1820 and died in Hampshire in 1908.
She married Robert Hughtrede Holt and they had 4 children one of whom
became a captain in the Royal Marines Light Infantry like Richard John
Hardy Douglas.
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