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Henry Douglas (bishop)

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Name
  
Henry Douglas

Role
  
Bishop


Died
  
1875

Education
  
Balliol College

Henry Alexander Douglas (1821 – 1875) was the third Bishop of Bombay from 1869 to 1875. Born into a noble family he was educated at Balliol College, Oxford and married in 1849. He was Vicar of Abbotsley, then Dean of Cape Town before his elevation to the Episcopate, he was a "moderate high churchman". He died on 13 December 1875 and his papers published posthumously.

His successor as Dean of Cape Town was a long serving Charles Barnett-Clarke.

He was the brother of John Douglas, Premier of Queensland.

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