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Born on 14 April 1869, Robert Bulloch
Douglas was the son of Robert Douglas, a Sailmaker and Ship Chandler,
and Jane Bulloch.
He was a Graduate of Glasgow University (1890)
and became a
Free Church Missionary to Johannesburg, where he was South Africa
Moderator of the Church in Southern Africa.
He received a mention in Arthur Connan-Doyle's essay
"The War in South Africa, Its Cause and Effect" in
his chapter on the concentration camps:
"The Rev. R. B. Douglas (Presbyterian minister)
writes:
'I am glad to see that you are not giving credence to
the tales of brutality and cruelty which are being freely circulated by
disloyal agitators about the treatment of the Boer refugees. But one
point on which you ask for more information is worth being noticed—the
difference of treatment between families of those on commando and
others. I am in a position to state that the whole difference made
amounted to two ounces of coffee and four ounces of sugar per week, and
that even this distinction totally disappeared by the middle of March.
As a set-off to this, the local Dutch[101] Committee, in distributing
some sixty cases of clothing, &c., sent out by the charitable, refused
to give any help to the families of some who were not on commando, on
the ground that these articles were for the benefit of those who were
fighting for their country.'"
Comment: Unpopular views here (in South Africa) and by
no means accurate!
Robert had a brother, George Revell Douglas, who
was apparently a dairyman and ran the condensed milk factory in the
small town of Indwe in the Eastern Cape.
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