Henry Douglas (bishop)

Henry Alexander Douglas (1821 – 1875[1]) was the third Bishop of Bombay from 1869 to 1875.[2]

Born into a noble family[3] he was educated at Sherborne and Balliol College, Oxford.[4] He married in 1849. He was Vicar of Abbotsley, then Dean of Cape Town before his elevation to the Episcopate, he was a "moderate high churchman".[1] He died on 13 December 1875 and his papers published posthumously.[5]

His successor as Dean of Cape Town was a long serving Charles Barnett-Clarke.

He was the brother of John Douglas, Premier of Queensland.

Notes

  1. The Times, Friday, 17 December 1875; pg. 5; Issue 28501; col G The Late Bishop Of Bombay.-The late Right Rev HA Douglas
  2. Chatterton, Eyre (1924). A History of the Church of England in India: Since the Early Days of the East India Company. Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  3. Noble provenance
  4. "The Sherborne Register 1550-1950" (PDF). Old Shirbirnian Society. Retrieved 16 February 2019.
  5. Douglas, Henry Alexander (1861). Sermons delivered by the Right Rev. Henry Alexander Douglas, Bishop of Bombay. Darnell and Murray.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
Anglican Church of Southern Africa titles
Preceded by
William Newman
Dean of Cape Town
1866 – 1869
Succeeded by
Charles Barnett-Clarke
Anglican Communion titles
Preceded by
John Harding
Bishop of Bombay
1869 – 1875
Succeeded by
Louis George Mylne


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