The
son of General Sir Howard Douglas, he was
4th baronet of Carr.
Lieutenant Governor and Colonel on Staff: Jersey 1860 - 1863 (I have a
note elsewhere that he was Governor in 1857) and for 5 years
Lieutenant-Governor of the Cape of Good Hope, when he held the local rank
of Lieutenant General.
First commissioned at the age of 14, he
became Colonel 2nd Battalion of the Prince of Wales's (North
Staffordshire) Regiment. In January 1864 he was made Colonel of, either,
or both, the 2nd West India Regiment and the 98th Regiment. He was
sometime Commissioner of the Ionian Islands.
The town of
Douglas,
situated near the confluence of the Orange and Vaal Rivers in the Northern
Cape province of South Africa is named after him. The town itself is a
green patchwork of dramatic contrast - space for the solitary and activity
for the energetic. Douglas is divided in two sections or locations named Bongani and Breipaal.
A series of reservoirs were built in the Eastern Cape of South Africa
during the drought years in the 1860's. One of these was named after
Sir Percy Douglas, then Lieutenant Governor of the Eastern Cape Colony.
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This coin, the second in the series, features the
Percy Douglas, a three-masted ship named after Major General Sir
Robert Percy Douglas, then Lieutenant Governor of Jersey. Although the
Percy Douglas was built in Beaumont, Jersey by Edward Allen, it was
registered in Liverpool to Thomas Hayley to whom the ship was awarded when
Edward Allen went bankrupt. Registered as 781 tons and launched on 8
August 1861, the Percy Douglas worked the China routes until 14
December 1871 when it was finally wrecked after running aground off
Rangoon, India. Read more...
His third
son was Sir Arthur Percy Douglas, Bart.,
Under-Secretary for Defence, New Zealand.Major General
Robert Percy Douglas died on 30 September 1891 aged 87 at The Hurst, his
residence in Bournemouth.
Mrs. Douglas: February 7th, at Limerick, Anne, wife of Colonel
Robert Percy Douglas, Assistant Adjutant-general at Head-quarters,
eldest son of General Sir Howard Douglas, Bart., G.CJB.—She was the only
daughter of Lieut.-Colonel G. H. Duckworth, 48th Foot (who was killed at
Albuera), only son of the late Admiral Sir J. T. Duckworth, Bart.,
G.C.B., by his first marriage. -
Hardwickes Annual Biographies, 1856
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Not to be confused with:
General Robert Douglas, Count
of Skenninge |
1611-1661 |
Major-General Robert Douglas
(of Garlston, NB) |
Born c1744, died 7th June 1798 |
Lt General Robert Douglas |
abt 1745 - 1827 |
Major General Robert Douglas |
Death: Aug. 20. 1828 At Great Baddow, Essex, |
Major General Robert Douglas |
1727-1809 |
General Robert Douglas, C.B. |
died at Claygate, Surrey on February 10, 1871 |
Major General Robert Wilkins
Douglass Jr. |
born in 1900 in Memphis, Tennessee, USA |
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