Philip Douglas

Philip Douglas, D.D. (27 October 1758 – 2 January 1822) was a British priest and academic in the second half of the eighteenth century and the first decades of the 19th.

Early life Douglas was born at Witham, Essex, the son of Archibald Douglas of Kirkton and his wife Elizabeth Burchard. Among his siblings were Capt. Archibald Martin John Douglas of the 13th Dragoons (who married Mary Elizabeth Crosbie), Judge William Douglas (who married Jane Bell), and Jane Douglas (who married William Van Mildert, the Bishop of Durham who was the last to rule the County Palatine of Durham).

Personal life On 15 Jun 1797 at St Bene't's Church, Cambridge, he married Mary Mainwaring (d. 1809), daughter of Anthony Mainwaring. She was brought up by her uncle, Dr. John Mainwaring, Lady Margaret's Professor of Divinity, both sons of Gilbert Mainwaring of Sherrall Hall in the manor of Drayton, near Tamworth, Staffordshire.

His wife died on 3 November 1809 and was buried at St Bene't's Church. Sir Robert Kennaway Douglas, who married Rachel Charlotte Kirkby (née Fenton). Robert Noel Douglas (1868–1957), James Douglas (1870–1958), Sholto Douglas (1873–1916), and Stuart Monro Douglas (b. 1879).