Rev. Robert Gresley Douglas, born at Salwarpe, co. Worcester, 24 March, =
bapt. there 25 April 1862 ; educated at Marlborough and at Keble
College, Oxford, matriculated 19 October 1880, B.A. 1885, M.A. 1887;
Curate of St. Matthew's, Leicester, 1885-87, of Northfield, co. Worcester,
1887-89; Vicar of Fichsburg, Orange Free State, 1890-93, Rector of
Beaconsfield, Griqualand West, both South Africa, 1894-97; Vicar of
St. Peter's, Stockport, co. Chester, 1897-1901, of North Nibley, co.
Gloucester, 1901-05 ; Rector of Rondesboch, Cape Colony, South Africa,
1 905-1 1 ; Curate of St. Barnabas' (in charge of St. Andrew's), Bexhill-
on-Sea, co. Sussex, 1913-16; Rector of Winchelsea, co. Sussex, 1916.
Rev. Robert Gresley Douglas, born at Salwarpe, co. Worcester, 24 March,
bapt. there 25 April 1862 ;
brother to the Revd Arthur
Jeffreys DOUGLAS UMCA missionary
born 09 Oct 1871 died 10 Nov 1911 Kango
Lake Nyasa
brother to the Revd Gerald
Wybergh DOUGLAS UMCA missionary
rector Christ Church S Leonards-on-Sea
Sussex
born 17 Jun 1875
fourth son of the Revd William Willoughby
DOUGLAS MA of Salwarpe co Worcester
JP patron and rector of Salwarpe,
honorary canon of Worcester
born 13 Jul 1824 died 19 Feb 1898
brother to first daughter Frances DOUGLAS, married the
Revd W WALSHAM HOW bishop of Wakefield
brother to fifth son Thomas DOUGLAS of
Derwent Lodge Tunbridge Wells
farmer Amberley
North Canterbury, married Janet HARPER
first son of fourteen children of the Revd
Henry DOUGLAS MA canon Durham
born 17 Apr 1793 died 15 Jul 1850
married 30 Sep 1823
and Eleanor BIRT died 24 Apr 1879
daughter of the Revd Thomas BIRT
vicar Newland co Gloucester
married 22 Jan 1850
and Frances Jane HOW died 11 Dec 1899
daughter of William Wybergh HOW of
Nearwell Shrewsbury;
Robert married Ethel Annie Rome, dau. of Thomas Blunt, M.D. ; marr. at All
Saints', Beaconsfield, Griqualand West, on Wednesday, 27 November 1895.
Education
1884 Ely theological college
1885 BA Keble College Oxford
1887 MA Oxford
1885 deacon Ely for Peterborough
1886 priest Peterborough
Positions
1885-1887 curate S Matthew Leicester diocese Peterborough
1888-1889 curate Northfield Worcestershire
16 Nov 1889 curate Modderpoort diocese
Bloemfontein South Africa
1890-1894 vicar Ficksburg and
Ladybrand with Clocolan
colleague of Bishop KNIGHT-BRUCE (see
Some Account of the diocese of Bloemfontein in the province of South
Africa from 1863 to 1894 by William CRISP BD archdeacon of
Bloemfontein)
1894-1897 rector Beaconsfield Cape Colony
1897-1901 vicar S Peter Stockport
1901-1905 vicar North Nibley
1905- rector Rondebosch South Africa
rector Winchelsea Rye co Sussex (4;2;8;287)
Other
BHOLB/26p157-158: a ‘Father DOUGLAS’ in a grey gown, whose uncle Thomas
DOUGLAS, son-in-law of Bishop HARPER, had taken an interest in
Amberley church in Christchurch diocese; now
here it seems on a mission or extended pastoral visit-eccentricity of his
grey gown makes Bishop HARPER uneasy but the man is warm and kindly and at
once liked and appreciated (70: BHOLB/26p157-158)
Extract
from Keeble College directory:
 Suffragette
prayers
Possible child:
Robert Claude Gresley Douglas, born 18 September 1898, bapt. at St. Peter's, Stockport ; educated at Lancing and at the Royal
Military College, Sandhurst.
Note:
David Archibald Gresley Douglas 85th Mountain Regiment RA was
mentioned in dispatches around 23rd May 1946 - a notice was published in
the London Gazette on that day. Captain ( Temp ) DAG Douglas - Royal
Artillery.
He was admitted to hospital on 15th Oct 1944 - cause unspecified and
relinquished his post of adjutant on that date and resumed the post on
23rd November 1944. He had previously been discharged from hospital on
4th October 1944 and again was reappointed as adjutant.
He enlisted on 15th August 1940 and his commission was dated 26th April
1941. On 1st October 1942 he was appointed W/s Lieutenant. On 21st June
1943 he was appointed A/Captain. On 30th October 1943 he was appointed
T/Captain. He was Adjutant 21st June 1943 to 13th July 1943 and again
26th July 1943 to 26th August 1943 and again 24th Sept to 13th Nov 1943
and 22nd July 1944 to 1st Sept 1945.
He served in the Middle East - Iraq and in the Italian Campaign, sent
out to fight at El Alamein in Egypt, but by the time they had arrived
the Battle had been won and his regiment was redeployed from Egypt to
Iraq to prepare for the Italian Campaign. He had Basuto Service Men
deployed with him to pull the guns over the
Appalachians with their mules which proved a linguistic and
logistical challenge. (It was the Monte Di Rontana!)
Arms
Gresley, of Salwarpe; as borne by Philip Gresley, High Sheriff in
1790. Mr. Gresley, who was born in 1751, and died s.p. in 1825, was
the only son of Philip Gresley (born 1713, ob. 1763) by Elizabeth
Surman of Pershore, and grandson of the Rev. Francis Gresley, rector
of Strensham, by Elizabeth, daughter of Philip Barton of Besford.
This last-named reverend and venerable gentleman, who was born in
the year 1674, and died in 1773, at the patriarchal age of
ninety-nine, was one of the sons of Henry Gresley by his second
wife, Eleanor, daughter of Gervase Buck, and grandson of John
Gresley by Joan, daughter of Jasper More of Larden, Salop; which
John Gresley was next brother to George Gresley of Drakelow, who was
created a baronet in 1611.* Mr. Philip Gresley devised his estates
to Robert Archibald Douglas, with a proviso that he should assume
the name and bear the arms of Gresley.—Vaire ermine and gules. (IV.)
Douglas-gresley, of High Park, Salwarpe; as exemplified by the
College of Arms in 1830 to Robert Archibald Douglas, second son of
the late Rev. Robert Douglas, rector of Salwarpe, on his assuming
the surname and arms of Gresley. —Vaire ermine
and gules, and (for distinction) a canton vert. Crest: A lion
passant argent gorged (for distinction) with a collar vaire ermine
and gules. Motto: "Meliore fide quam fortuna."
Mr. Douglas-Gresley bears these arms quarterly, in the first and
fourth quarters, with those of Douglas, and also uses the Douglas
crest in addition to that of Gresley.
* From a pedigree registered in the College of Arms, communicated by
R. A. Douglas-Gresley, esq.
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