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Commander William Manners Wellington DouglasSon of Rear Admiral Peter John Douglas, William Manners Wellington Douglas was born on 21st June 1814, in Hamble, Hampshire, England. He entered the Royal Naval College in August 1827, and embarked, 15 August 1829, on board the Briton under Captain Hon. William Gordon, whom he ultimately accompanied to the West Indies. In May 1830 he there removed to the Blanche, bearing the broad pendant of Sir Arthur Farquhar, from which ship he appears to have been subsequently lent from February, 1832 to the Ariadne, under Captain Chas. Phillips. At the end of the following year, Mr Douglas sailed for the Mediterranean in the Thunderer under Captain William Furlong Wise. Having passed his examination, on the 24 June, 1834, he joined the Trinculo under Captain Jas. Rich. Booth and Henry Joseph Puget, stationed of the coast of Africa; where up the river Bonny, with the help of a prize-slaver under Mr Fides, Master's Assistant, he gallantly repelled in a pinnace with only 10 hands, an attack by 13 large canoes full of armed men. He afterwards served in the West Indies on board the Melville and Cornwallis, bearing the flags of, in succession, Sir Peter Halkett and Sir Chas. Puget; of which latter ship he was confirmed a Lieutenant on 30 January, 1839. His next appointments were - 22 October, 1839 to the Stag under Commodore Thos. Ball Sullivan - and 26 June, and 10 October, 1841, to the Winchester and Seringapatam, each bearing the broad pennant of his father. Since his last promotion on the 12 November 1841, he was promoted to Commander. Inspecting Commander, Coast Guard 4 Dec 48 He died on 9th February 1865
Mother: Lydia MORIARTY Married: Elizabeth HAWES, daughter of Edward Hawes, in 1843, aged 35. She died in 1876.
Note: Royal Marine Artillery. Captain and Brevet Major Gordon Manners Shipley Douglas to be Major, vice O'Connor, retired. Dated 23rd March, 1886. • Lieutenant (later Major) Gordon Stanhope Atherton Douglas (1882-1964), 2nd Battalion The East Yorkshire Regiment: b. Southsea, Hampshire, 29 September 1882, eldest of five children of Gordon Manners Shipley Douglas (1848-92), late captain Royal Marines, and Elizabeth (‘Eba’) Bromley Atherton (1849-1935); unmarried; commissioned in the Northumberland Fusiliers from the Militia 29 January 1902. South African War, 1902. Transferred to the East Yorkshire Regiment 20 May 1908; spent much of the second half of the war employed with the 7th Training Reserve Battalion (from 4 January 1917). His younger brother, Captain James Hyde Mariarty Douglas (1887-1936), served in the Sherwood Foresters. Major Douglas died in Hove General Hospital, Sussex, on 5 September 1964, aged 81. Probate:The East Yorkshire Regiment £694 0s 0d.
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