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Authorised form of nameDouglas; Sir; Howard (1776 - 1861)
Dates1776 - 1861
NationalityBritish
Place of birthGosport, Hampshire, England
Date of birth23 January 1776
Place of deathTunbridge Wells, Kent
Date of death09 November 1861
DatesAndPlacesBurial:
Boldre, near Lymington, Hampshire
OccupationSoldier
ActivityEducation:
Royal Military Academy, Woolwich; Honorary DCL (1829, Oxford)
Career:
Lieutenant, Royal Artillery (1794); Captain (1804); commanded at Quebec; fought as Lieutenant Colonel at Corunna (1809); served again in Peninsula (1811-1812); Colonel (1814); Major General (1821); Governor of New Brunswick (1823-1829); Lord High Commissioner of the Ionian Islands (1835-1840); Lieutenant General (1837); Colonel 99th Foot (1841); Colonel 15th Foot (1851); General (1851); MP for Liverpool (1842-1847); Gentleman of the Bedchamber to the Duke of Gloucester; various appointments at the Royal Military College
Honours:
CB 1815; GCMG 1835; KCB 1840; GCB 1841
Memberships:
FRGS; AINA (notification arrived on the day of his death)
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election25/01/1816
RelationshipsSon of Sir Charles Douglas, 1st Bart (FRS 1770) and his second wife, Sarah; succeeded his half-brother as 3rd Baronet of Carr (1809)
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB
CodeNA6940
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNoTitleDate
EC/1815/22Douglas, Sir Howard: certificate of election to the Royal Society
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