John Douglas (bishop of Salisbury)
John Douglas (14 July 1721 – 18 May 1807) was a
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.[1]
As
Douglas was not an outstanding churchman. He preferred to stay in London in winter and at fashionable watering places in summer.[1] 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[1] (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.[1]
A sister of his kept the British Coffee House, one of London's significant meeting places, especially for Scotsmen.[2]
References
- ^ a b c d e f g Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 8 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 446.
- ISBN 9781108028080.
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