John Douglas 1714-1766
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John DOUGLAS 1714-1766
Biographical Note
Son of John Douglas of Leeds. BA Trinity College, Cambridge 1736, MA 1740; rector of Eccleston, Lancashire, where he was buried in 1766.
Books
Douglas used an engraved armorial bookplate, made sometime after he graduated MA in 1740 (Franks 8911); the extent and disposition of his library is not known.
Sources
- Gambier Howe, E. R. J. Franks bequest: catalogue of British and American book plates bequeathed to the ... British Museum. London, 1903-4.
- Venn, J. and J. A., Alumni Cantabrigienses, Cambridge, 1922.