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DOUGLAS, JOHN (17211807.)

This article appears in Volume V08, Page 446 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: DIO-DRO
DOUGLAS, JOHN (17211807.) , Scottish man of letters and Anglican
bishop
 , was the son of a small shopkeeper at Pittenweem, Fife, where he was born on the 14th of July 1721. He waseducated at Dunbar and at Balliol College,
Oxford
 , where he took his M.A. degree in 1743, and as chaplain to the 3rd regiment of foot guards he was at the battle of Fontenoy, 1745. He then returned to Balliol as a Snell exhibitioner; became
vicar
  of High Ercall, Shropshire, in 1750; canon of Windsor, 1762;
bishop
  of
Carlisle
 , 1787 (and also dean of Windsor, 1788); bishop of
Salisbury
 , 1791. Other honours were the degree of D.D., 1758, and those of F.R.S. and F.S.A. in 1778. Douglas was not conspicuous as an ecclesiastical
administrator
 , preferring to his livings the delights of London in winter and the fashionable watering-places in summer. Under the patronage of the
earl
  of Bath he entered into a good. many literary controversies, vindicating Milton from W. Lauder's charge of plagiarism (1750), attacking
David
 'Hume's rationalism in his Criterion of Miracles (1752),_ and the Hutchinsonians in his A pology for the Clergy (1755). He also edited Captain Cook's
Journals
 , and Clarendon's Diary and Letters (1763). He died on the 18th of May 1807, and a volume of MiscellaneousW orks, prefaced by a short
biography
 , was published in 182x.


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