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"1st Baron Glenbervie" Sylvester Douglas Hand Signed 4X6 Card. Sylvester Douglas, 1st Baron Glenbervie. 24 May 1743 - 2 May. 1823 was a British lawyer, politician and diarist.
Douglas was the son of John Douglas, descended from James Douglas. William Douglas, 9th Earl of Angus. His mother was Margaret Gordon, daughter and co-heir of James Gordon, of.
He was educated at the. 1765 and then studied both Law and Medicine at the. The same year he was appointed a. King's Counsel Douglas gave up his legal career on his appointment as. In 1795 he was elected to the. He was asked to accompany. In 1796 and, after 18 months there, to succeed him as governor. His wife did not like the idea and he declined the offer, even though an Irish. Peerage had also been offered. In 1797 Douglas was made a. Douglas was asked for a second time to go to the Cape as governor. He finally agreed in October 1800. Again for an Irish peerage and was so appointed. The Cape of Good Hope. Douglas changed his mind again and accepted a.Salary, paid from the Cape Treasury, even though he never went there. End of the year he was created Baron Glenbervie of Kincardine, in Scotland. Vice-President of the Board of Trade. Between 1801 and 1804, he was.
General of Woods, Forests, Parks, and Chases. On the office of the. General of the Land Revenues of the Crown. Former in 1810, became the. First Commissioner of Woods and. The head of the new department. He held the office until. Rector of King's College, Aberdeen.