Background
He was the third and youngest surviving son of John Douglas, an innkeeper in Hyde Park Road, London.
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James Douglas
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After the death of most of the family, he went north to stay with his brother William, a cloth merchant in Manchester, and attended Manchester grammar school.
Career
He entered the Austrian Army, dropping out when on a mission to Great Britain. He entered Peterhouse, Cambridge in 1777. And in 1779 he served under Hugh Debbieg in the Leicestershire militia.
In 1780 he was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London, and took holy orders.
The early part of Douglas"s ministry was at Chiddingfold, Surrey. On 17 November 1787 he was instituted to the rectory of Litchborough, Northamptonshire, on the presentation of Sir William Addington, and towards the end of that year he was appointed one of the Prince of Wales"s chaplains.
He resigned Litchborough in 1799 on being presented by the lord chancellor, through the recommendation of the Earl of Egremont, to the rectory of Middleton, Sussex. In 1803 he was presented by Lord Henniker to the vicarage of Kenton, Suffolk.
The closing years of Douglas"s life were spent at Preston, Sussex, where he died on 5 November 1819.
In January 1780 Douglas married Margaret, daughter of John Oldershaw of Rochester, an eminent surgeon in Leicester.
