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 Balliol College, Oxford and 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".^[4] 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. "A history of the Church of England in India since the early days of the East India Company" Chatterton, E: London: SPCK, 1924
3. Noble provenance
4. Times Obit (ibid)
5. Douglas, Henry Alexander (1861). Sermons delivered by the Right Rev. Henry Alexander Douglas, Bishop of Bombay. Darnell and Murray.