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Sir James Douglas

 

Book of Mackay, pg 329; Blackcastle, p 140 states Sir James Douglas, British Consul at Naples*, on whom His Majesty King George III was graciously pleased to confer the honour of Knighthood 20 Apr 1785. He died at Naples 6 May 1795.

Peerage.com shows him marrying Isobel, daughter of Rev Alexander Douglas (of Baads).

A MacKay genealogy website shows him as marrying abt 1735 Margaret MacKay, of Strathnaver, Farr, Sutherland, Scotland, daughter of Donald MacKay and Margaret Sutherland.

It is possible that Sir James had a daughter, Mary Elizabeth, who married Abraham Gibbs of Naples & Palermo (bpt 10 Sep 1753, d Dec 1816), 2nd son of John Gibbs of Topsham and Elizabeth Meachin.  They had a daughter, Mary Elizabeth Catherine Gibbs (1793-1878) who married Lt Gen Charles Ashe A'Court, later Repington, of Amington Hall, d 19 Apr 1861.

It is also possible that another daughter was Mary Elizabeth A'Court-Repington, who married Sidney Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Lea, son of George Augustus Herbert, 11th Earl of Pembroke and Catherine Woronzow, on 12 August 1846. She died on 30 October 1911.

His death notice in the The Gentleman's magazine, Volume 77 reads:

May...(6th ?) (1795) at Naples, after a long and painful illness, Sir James Douglas, bart, the British consul-general. His remains were interred in the evening of the 16th, in the English burying-ground, with the greatest decency. Lady Douglas, his second wife, with three daughters, are to inherit his property, which lies in St. Christopher's, in the West Indies.

 

However,

...Isabel Douglas, whose husband, Sir James Douglas, consul at Naples, had served the king forty years "In a military and civil capacity," had been left unprovided for, and begs Thurlow to support her efforts to obtain a pension. ...

 

* I think Naples was capital of the Two Scillies at that time??

 

 

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