Sir Howard Douglas Letter Books and Miscellaneous Correspondence : 1812 - 1841.
Call Number: | HIL-MICL FC LPR .N4L5L4 |
Category: | New Brunswick |
Creator: | New Brunswick. Lieutenant Governor. |
Description: | 1 microfilm textual records () ; 16 mm |
Background: | Sir Howard Douglas (1776-1861) was the son of Sir Charles Douglas, the commander of the naval force that relieved Quebec during the siege by the Americans under Generals Arnold and Montgomery in May of 1776. Douglas was born at Gosport, England, and graduated from the Royal Woolich Military Academy in 1794 as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Royal Artillery. He survived the wreck of the troopship Phillis on the coast of Newfoundland in 1775, and the next year continued on to Quebec City and later Kingston, Upper Canada, before returning to England in 1798. In 1799, he married Anne Dundas of Edinburgh, Scotland, and they had a large family. During the remainder of the Napoleonic Wars, he saw military action in Spain and Holland with the Royal Artillery, and later became known as a military theorist, instructor, and inventor. In 1812 he was made a Fellow of the Royal Society. Douglas was promoted to the rank of major-general in 1821, and this rank qualified him for a colonial appointment as lieutenant-governor. He arrived in New Brunswick on 28 August 1824, and continued in office until 19 February 1831. |
Contents: | The four Sir Howard Douglas Letterbooks encompass a period, with notable gaps in the record, from the time in the Napoleonic Wars when he was commandant of the senior department of the Royal Military College in High Wycombe, England, and inspector-general of instructions, through his years as lieutenant-governor of New Brunswick, and until the end of his service as lord high commissioner of the Ionian Islands. |
Originals: | The original records are held by the University of New Brunswick Archives. They form part of the Beaverbrook Special Collections and were donated by Lord Beaverbrook in the 1950s. |
Archival Ref. No.: | The Sir Howard Douglas Letter Books are also available on microfilm at the Provincial Archives of NB |
Finding Aids: | A typescript Index has been microfilmed at the beginning of each volume. The Indexes for each volume are arranged alphabetically by the names of the individuals to whom the letters were sent, and also include the Letter Book page, date, and a brief statement of content for each letter. (The Index for Volume 4 does not contain a content listing.) |
Electronic Finding Aid Record: |
Contents_Howard-Douglas-Letter-Books_NB-Lt-Governor.pdf Index_Howard-Douglas-Letter-Books_NB-Lt-Governor.pdf List_Howard-Dougls-Letter-Books_NB-Lt-Governor.pdf |
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