1873 - Yes, date unknown
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| Name |
Edward Wingfield Douglass |
| Birth |
1873 |
Hilton, Grahamstown, South Africa  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Death |
Yes, date unknown |
| Person ID |
I83445 |
My Genealogy |
| Last Modified |
15 Nov 2018 |
| Father |
Arthur Douglass, b. Jan 1843, Market Harborough, Leicestershire, England d. 1925 (Age 81 years) |
| Mother |
Martha Emily Perkins, b. 1842, Laughton, Leicester, England d. 20 Feb 1925, Wynberg, Cape, South Africa (Age 83 years) |
| Marriage |
1867 |
| Family ID |
F30653 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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| Notes |
- Edward Wingfield Douglass K.C. who was appointed Attorney- General of the Cape Province in December last (1915), had his origins in the Eastern Districts of that province. He was born in 1873 at the farm "Hilton" near Grahamstown, the first real ostrich farm. His father was the Hon Arthur Douglass M.L.A. His mother Mrs M.E. (Martha Emily) Douglass is now living in Wynberg. One of a family of eight children, young Douglass spent his boyhood at "Heatherton Towers" on great Fish River, to which farm the family moved in 1875. At the age of 12 he went to St Andrew's College, Grahamstown, where he remained until he was nineteen. In June 1892, he went to England, and entered Keble College, Oxford, with the object of reading law, and being called to the Bar, graduating in June 1895 with honors.
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