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Saxton Edward Douglas was born 14 September 1877 in Bournemouth, Hampshire, the eldest son of
Dr Justyn George Durham Douglas, M.D., J.P., and Augusta May Douglas (née Ram). He was part of a remarkable family of ten children, many of whom went on to serve in the church, military, and colonial administration.
Educated at Felsted Preparatory School and later Sherborne School, where he was a day boy from May 1894 to August 1896. He subsequently attended the University of Edinburgh, following in the academic footsteps of his father, who had also studied there.
Douglas entered the British colonial service and was appointed Assistant Treasurer in Northern Nigeria, a role that placed him within the early administrative framework of the British protectorate during a period of consolidation and infrastructural development. His service in West Africa was part of a broader family pattern
- two of his brothers, Kenneth Justyn and Rev. Mellis Stuart Douglas, also served in Nigeria in civil and ecclesiastical capacities.
After his tenure in Nigeria, Saxton turned to rubber planting in the Federated Malay States, reflecting the economic shift of the British Empire toward plantation agriculture in Southeast Asia. He died in
Kuala Lumpur on 4 November 1910, aged 33, during the height of British colonial expansion in Malaya.
See also:
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The Douglas Brothers at Sherborne School
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This article is based on research by Rachel Hassall, Sherborne, Dorset.
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