Sir Adye Douglas, Kt, Mlc^[1]

1815 - 1906  (90 years)

• Name	Adye Douglas
  Prefix	Sir
  Suffix	Kt, Mlc
  Birth	31 May 1815	Thorpe-Next-Norwich, England, UK
  Gender	Male
  Death	10 Apr 1906	Holy Trinity Church, Launceston
  Burial	12 Apr 1906	Cornelian Bay, Cementry, Hobart.
  	Migrated to Van Diemen's Land aboard the "Louisa Campbell", arrived 1839; with brother Henry pastoral licence of Cameron's Run, nr. Romsey, Port Philip district, 1839--40; elected to Legislative Council 1855; Mayor of Launceston 1865--6 qne 1880--2; Premier of Tasmania 1884--6; first Agent General 1886; President of Legislative Council 1894-1904. Founder of Douglas & Collins, solicitors, Launceston, Tasmania. Knight Bachelor 1902, introduced railways into Tasmania, and took a leading part in Australian Federation.
  Person ID	I23448	First tree
  Last Modified	11 Aug 2015

  
  

  Mother	Eleanor Crabtree   d. Yes, date unknown
  Family ID	F50415	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1
  Family ID	F50036	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 2
  Children	1. Eleanor Douglas,   b. Bef 1859   d. Yes, date unknown
  Family ID	F50037	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  A lawyer and politician The following is an extract from Wikipedia: Douglas had three sons and a daughter in the 1840's. He married Martha Matilda Collins in 1858, but they had no children. In 1873, he married Charlotte Richards, and they had a daughter Eleanor, before she died in 1876. In 1877, he married Charlotte's sister, Ida in Adelaide, and they had four sons, and four daughters.

  
  

• Sources

  [S2832] .