Robert Douglas

(1747-1820)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Douglas, Robert, 1747-1820 NRA: Douglas Robert (1747-1820) minister of Galashiels DNB: Douglas, Robert (1747-1820), Church of Scotland minister LBT ID: RoDougl1820 VIAF ID: 58082462 LOC ID: n85388022	B/BAP: 1747 DIED: 1820-11-16
SOURCES: James C. Corson, Notes and Index to Grierson's Letters of Scott; Virtual International Authority File; LOC Name Authority File
Son of John Douglas, minister of Jedburgh, he was minister of Galashiels (1770-1820), D.D. Aberdeen (1797), and a friend of Sir Walter Scott who purchased Abbotsford from him.
REFERENCES TO Robert Douglas: Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Chapter II 1771-78 Found 1: ¶ 28 Chapter XI 1811 Found 2: ¶ 5 ¶ 16 Chapter XI 1815 Found 1: ¶ 7 Charles Macfarlane, Reminiscences of a Literary Life (London: John Murray, 1917) GEORGE DOUGLAS Found 7: ¶ 1 ¶ 2 ¶ 6 ¶ 8 ¶ 12 ¶ 13 ¶ 14