James Douglas (died 1751)

James Douglas (died 2 June 1751) was a British politician.

He succeeded Henry Vane, 1st Earl of Darlington as the Member of Parliament for St. Mawes from 1741 to 1747^[1] and for Malmesbury from 1747 until his death in 1751.^[2]

Douglas was a younger son of James Douglas, a merchant in London, of the family of Douglas of Friarshaw, and his wife (née Russell). He married Albinia, daughter of Major-General William Farrington and widow of Robert Bertie, 1st Duke of Ancaster; she died on 29 July 1745.^[3]

References

1. Leigh Rayment Constituencies beginning with S Part 1
2. Leigh Rayment Constituencies beginning with M Part 1
3. G. Harvey Johnston, The Heraldry of the Douglases, 1907, p. 35.