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See also:DOUGLAS, See also:JOHN (1721—1807.) , Scottish See also:man of letters and See also:Anglican See also:bishop, was the son of a small shopkeeper at Pittenweem, See also:Fife, where he was See also:born on the 14th of See also:July 1721. He waseducated at See also:Dunbar and at Balliol See also:College, See also:- OXFORD
- OXFORD, EARLS OF
- OXFORD, EDWARD DE VERE, 17TH EARL
- OXFORD, JOHN DE VERE, 13TH EARL OF (1443-1513)
- OXFORD, PROVISIONS OF
- OXFORD, ROBERT DE VERE, 9TH EARL OF (1362-1392)
- OXFORD, ROBERT HARLEY, 1ST
Oxford, where he took his M.A. degree in 1743, and as See also:chaplain to the 3rd See also:regiment of See also:foot See also:guards he was at the See also:battle of See also:Fontenoy, 1745. He then returned to Balliol as a See also:Snell exhibitioner; became See also:vicar of High Ercall, See also:Shropshire, in 1750; See also:canon of See also:Windsor, 1762; bishop of See also:Carlisle, 1787 (and also See also:dean of Windsor, 1788); bishop of See also:Salisbury, 1791. Other honours were the degree of D.D., 1758, and those of F.R.S. and F.S.A. in 1778. Douglas was not conspicuous as an ecclesiastical See also:administrator, preferring to his livings the delights of See also:London in See also:winter and the fashionable watering-places in summer. Under the patronage of the See also:earl of See also:Bath he entered into a See also:good. many See also:literary controversies, vindicating See also:Milton from W. See also:Lauder's See also:charge of See also:plagiarism (1750), attacking See also:David'See also:Hume's See also:rationalism in his Criterion of Miracles (1752),_ and the Hutchinsonians in his A See also:pology for the See also:Clergy (1755). He also edited See also:Captain See also:Cook's See also:Journals, and See also:Clarendon's See also:Diary and Letters (1763). He died on the 18th of May 1807, and a See also:volume of MiscellaneousW orks, prefaced by a See also:short See also:biography, was published in 182x.
End of Article: DOUGLAS, JOHN (1721—1807.)
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