Philip Douglas,D.D. (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.[1]
Douglas was born atWitham, Essex, the son ofArchibald Douglas of Kirkton and his wife Elizabeth Burchard, and went toHarrow School.[2] He was a student atCorpus Christi College, Cambridge, graduatingB.A. in 1781;MA in 1784; andB.D. in 1793. He was appointedFellow in 1782;Tutor in 1787 andMaster in 1795. He wasVice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge from 1795 to 1796; and again from 1810 to 1811. He wasordained in 1783 and served histitle atWhittlesford. He wasvicar ofGedney from 1796 until his death.[3]
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