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- Of Gateshaw, Roxburghshire.
He assumed the surname Cowan-Douglas as a condition of the will of Alexander Sholto Douglas, of Gateshaw, who died in 1917.
Mr. Cowan-Douglas, who was educated at Fettes Coll., Edinburgh, and assumed the additional surname of Douglas 1916, was formerly ranching in Alberta, Canada.??" Residence: Corbet Tower, Kelso; R. Automobile Club, s.w. ; Western Club, Glasgow.
From Walford's County Families, 1919: COWAN-DOUGLAS, Robert William, Esq.,
of Gateshaw, Roxburghshire. Only son of John Black Cowan, Esq., LL.D., Professor of Mat. Med., Glasgow Univ., who d. 1896, by Mary Anne, who d. 1861, dau. of the late Dr. William Stokes, of Dublin; b. 1861; s. Alexander Sholto Douglas, Esq., W.S., J.P., 1916; m. 1892 Isabella Margaret, dau. of the late Robert Balloch, Esq., of Glasgow, and has, with other issue, a son, *John Robert, D.S.O., M.C., Capt. Highland L.I. ; educated at Marlborough Coll. and at the R. Mil. Coll., Sandhurst ; b. 1893. Mr. Cowan-Douglas, who was educated at Fettes Coll., Edinburgh, and assumed the additional surname of Douglas 1916, was formerly ranching in Alberta, Canada.? Residence: Corbet Tower, Kelso; R. Automobile Club, s.w. ; Western Club, Glasgow.
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