John Douglas (bishop of Salisbury), Date of Birth, Date of Death

    

John Douglas (bishop of Salisbury)

Scottish scholar and Anglican bishop

Date of Birth: 14-Jul-1721

Date of Death: 18-May-1807

Profession: priest, theologian, literary critic

Zodiac Sign: Cancer


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About John Douglas (bishop of Salisbury)

  • John Douglas (14 July 1721 – 18 May 1807) was a Scottish scholar and Anglican bishop.Douglas was born at Pittenweem, Fife, the son of a shopkeeper, and was educated at Dunbar, East Lothian, and at Balliol College, Oxford, where he gained his M.A.
  • degree in 1743.As chaplain to the 3rd Regiment of Foot Guards, he was at the Battle of Fontenoy, 1745.
  • He then returned to Balliol as a Snell Exhibitioner; became Vicar of High Ercall, Shropshire in 1750; a Canon of Windsor, namely Canon of the Eleventh Stall at St George's Chapel, Windsor (1762-1776); a member of the chapter of St Paul's Cathedral in 1777; Bishop of Carlisle in 1787; Dean of Windsor in 1788; and Bishop of Salisbury in 1791.
  • As Bishop of Salisbury he was also ex officio Chancellor of the Order of the Garter.
  • Other honours were the degree of DD (1758), and those of Fellow of the Royal Society and Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries.Douglas was not an outstanding churchman.
  • He preferred to stay in London in winter and at fashionable watering places in summer.
  • Under the patronage of the Earl of Bath he entered into several literary controversies.
  • He defended John Milton against William Lauder's charge of plagiarism (1750), and attacked David Hume's rationalism in his Letter on the Criterion of Miracles (1754); he went on to criticise the followers of John Hutchinson in his Apology for the Clergy (1755).
  • He also edited Captain Cook's Journals, and Clarendon's Diary and Letters (1763).
  • A volume of Miscellaneous Works; prefaced by a short biography, was published posthumously in 1820.

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