Henry Douglas (bishop)

Henry Alexander Douglas (1821 – 1875[1]) was the third Bishop of Bombay from 1869 to 1875.[2]

Born into a noble family[3] he was educated at Sherborne and Balliol College, Oxford[4]. He 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".[1] He died on 13 December 1875 and his papers published posthumously.[5]

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

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

Notes

1. The Times, Friday, 17 December 1875; pg. 5; Issue 28501; col G The Late Bishop Of Bombay.-The late Right Rev HA Douglas
2. Chatterton, Eyre (1924). A History of the Church of England in India: Since the Early Days of the East India Company. Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
3. Noble provenance
4. "The Sherborne Register 1550-1950" (PDF). Old Shirbirnian Society. Retrieved 16 February 2019.
5. Douglas, Henry Alexander (1861). Sermons delivered by the Right Rev. Henry Alexander Douglas, Bishop of Bombay. Darnell and Murray.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)

Anglican Church of Southern Africa titles
Preceded by William Newman	Dean of Cape Town 1866 – 1869	Succeeded by Charles Barnett-Clarke
Anglican Communion titles
Preceded by John Harding	Bishop of Bombay 1869 – 1875	Succeeded by Louis George Mylne