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Rear Admiral Hon George Henry Douglas

 

He married Charlotte Martha Parker, daughter of Admiral Sir William Parker, 1st Bt., on 18 July 1850. He died on 19 June 1905 at age 83.

They had two children:

Has ChildrenBlanche Douglas   She married George Ponsonby Talbot, son of Rear-Admiral Sir Charles Talbot and Hon. Charlotte Georgiana Ponsonby, on 29 September 1887. She died on 19 March 1922.

 Has ChildrenMajor George Sholto Douglas   b. 27 Apr 1858,  He married Lady Laura Mary Wentworth-Fitzwilliam, daughter of William FitzWilliam, Viscount Milton and Laura Maria Theresa Beauclerk, on 30 April 1889. He died on 10 February 1916 at age 57.
     He lived at Eden Hall, Kelso.

                They had five children:
                Margaret Laura Douglas   d. 2 Oct 1933
                Katharine Charlotte Douglas+
                Archibald Sholto George Douglas+   b. 17 Mar 1896
                Captain David Sholto William Douglas+   b. 26 Aug 1899
                John Sholto Henry Douglas+   b. 16 Jun 1903, d. 15 Oct 1960

Rear Admiral of the White, 

Ship: Between 1853 and 1856, he commanded Cruizer in Woolwich, and the in the Baltic during the Russian war.

Promoted Captain - 1782
Promoted Rear Admiral - 1804

Admiral Hon. George Henry Douglas R.N., was in 1879, Agent to Earl Fitzwilliam, Cortworth House

See also biography in William O'Byrne's Naval Biographical Dictionary



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