Philip Douglas,

D.D. A Doctor of Divinity (D.D. or DDiv; la, Doctor Divinitatis) is the holder of an advanced academic degree in divinity. In the United Kingdom, it is considered an advanced doctoral degree. At the University of Oxford, doctors of divinity are ra ...

(27 October 1758 – 2 January 1822) was a British priest and academic in the second half of the eighteenth century and the first decades of the 19th. Douglas was born at

Witham, Essex Witham () is a town in the Counties of England, county of Essex in the East of England, with a population (United Kingdom Census 2011, 2011 census) of 25,353. It is part of the District of Braintree (district), Braintree and is twinned with the ...

, the son of Archibald Douglas of Kirkton and his wife Elizabeth Burchard, and went to

Harrow School (The Faithful Dispensation of the Gifts of God) , established = (Royal Charter) , closed = , type = Public schoolIndependent schoolBoarding school , religion = Church of E ...

. He was a student at

Corpus Christi College, Cambridge Corpus Christi College (full name: "The College of Corpus Christi and the Blessed Virgin Mary", often shortened to "Corpus"), is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. From the late 14th century through to the early 19th century ...

, graduating

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in 1781; MA in 1784; and B.D. in 1793. He was appointed

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in 1782;

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in 1787 and

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in 1795. He was Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge from 1795 to 1796; and again from 1810 to 1811. He was

ordained Ordination is the process by which individuals are consecrated, that is, set apart and elevated from the laity class to the clergy, who are thus then authorized (usually by the denominational hierarchy composed of other clergy) to perform va ...

in 1783 and served his

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Whittlesford Whittlesford is a village in Cambridgeshire, England, and also the name of an old hundred. The village is situated on the Granta branch of the River Cam, seven miles south of Cambridge. Whittlesford Parkway railway station serves the village. Li ...

. He was

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of Gedney from 1796 until his death.Douglas Archives
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People educated at Harrow School Alumni of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge Fellows of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge Masters of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge 18th-century English Anglican priests 19th-century English Anglican priests 1822 deaths 1758 births People from Essex Vice-Chancellors of the University of Cambridge {{Christian-clergy-stub