The Hon John Douglas CMG
7thPremier of Queensland
In office 8 March 1877 – 21 January 1879
Preceded by	George Thorn
Succeeded by	Thomas McIlwraith
Constituency	Maryborough
5th Treasurer of Queensland
In office 19 December 1866 – 21 May 1867
Preceded by	John Donald McLean
Succeeded by	Thomas Blacket Stephens
Constituency	Eastern Downs
Member of theNew South Wales Legislative Assembly forDarling Downs
In office 5 July 1859 – 10 December 1859 Serving with William Handcock
Preceded by	William Wild
Succeeded by	David Bell
Member of theNew South Wales Legislative Assembly forCamden
In office 21 December 1860 – 17 July 1861
Preceded by	William Wild
Succeeded by	David Bell
Member of theQueensland Legislative Assembly forPort Curtis
In office 14 June 1863 – 1 February 1866
Preceded by	Alfred Sandeman
Succeeded by	Arthur Palmer
Member of theQueensland Legislative Assembly forEastern Downs
In office 4 January 1867 – 18 September 1868
Preceded by	John Donald McLean
Succeeded by	Arthur Macalister
Member of theQueensland Legislative Assembly forEast Moreton
In office 28 September 1868 – 16 December 1868 Serving with Arthur Francis
Preceded by	James Garrick
Succeeded by	Henry Jordan
Member of theQueensland Legislative Assembly forMaryborough
In office 27 April 1875 – 24 November 1880 Serving with Henry King
Preceded by	Berkeley Basil Moreton
Succeeded by	Henry Palmer
Member of the Queensland Legislative Council
In office 22 February 1866 – 25 July 1866
In office 11 December 1868 – 13 November 1869
Personal details
Born	(1828-03-06)6 March 1828 London,England,UK
Died	23 July 1904(1904-07-23) (aged 76) Thursday Island,Queensland,Australia
Spouse(s)	Mary Ann Howe Sarah Hickey
Relations	Henry Douglas (son),Alex Douglas (great grandson)
Occupation	Civil Servant

John DouglasCMG (6 March 1828 – 23 July 1904) was anAnglo-Australian politician andPremier of Queensland.^[1]

Douglas was born inLondon, the seventh son of Henry Alexander Douglas^[1] and his wife Elizabeth Dalzell, daughter of theEarl of Carnwath. His father, the third son ofSir William Douglas, 4th Baronet of Kelhead, was a brother of thesixth andseventhMarquesses of Queensberry. Douglas' father died in 1837 and his mother in 1833 (burial records of the church of St Mary-Le-Bone, London), he was educated atEdinburgh Academy,Rugby 1843–47 andDurham University where he graduatedB.A. in 1850.^[2]

He was elected for theDarling Downs and forCamden in theNew South Wales Legislative Assembly until resigning on 17 July 1861. He moved toQueensland in 1863.^[3]

On 12 May 1863 he was elected as member forPort Curtis in theLegislative Assembly of Queensland. He resigned on 1 February 1866, in order to be appointed on to theQueensland Legislative Council, which occurred on 22 February 1866.^[4]

In 1871 Douglas returned to Queensland and became insolvent on 23 February 1872.Lewis Adolphus Bernays claimed Douglas had more success as a clever political wire-puller behind the scenes than he had in parliament.^[5]

In 1865Augustus Charles Gregory,Maurice Charles O'Connell and Douglas applied for a special grant of land to erect aMasonic Hall in Brisbane. This was granted on 15 January 1865.^[6]

In 1882 he was elected president of Brisbane'sJohnsonian Club.^[7]

In 1888 Douglas returned to his old position on Thursday Island. In 1890 he was one of the organisers of the rescue of survivors fromRMS Quetta.^[8]

Port Douglas is named in his honour.^[9]

Douglas was married twice, first on 22 January 1861 to Mary Ann, daughter of the Rev. William West Simpson. She was killed in a carriage accident 23 November 1876 and, in 1877, he married for the second time, to Sarah, daughter of Michael Hickey, with whom he had four sons:

• Edward Archibald Douglas (1877–1947), was appointed a judge of theSupreme Court of Queensland in March 1929^[10]
• Henry Alexander Cecil Douglas (1879–1917), a member of theQueensland Legislative Assembly.
• Hugh Maxwell Douglas (1881–1918), a lieutenant in the47th Battalion,1st AIF, who died 8 April 1918 aged 37, while fighting atDernacourt in France duringWorld War I .^[11]
• Robert Johnstone Douglas (1883–1972), was appointed a judge of theSupreme Court of Queensland in 1923^[12] and married Annie Alice May Ball, daughter of Townsville pioneerAndrew Ball

Douglas died onThursday Island on 23 July 1904.

Through his sonHenry, he was a grandfather of Alexander Michael Douglas (b. 1926), and a great-grandfather ofAlexander Rodney Douglas, formerly a member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly, representing the seat ofGaven.

• Members of the Queensland Legislative Assembly, 1860–1863;1863–1867;1867–1868;1868–1870;1873–1878;1878–1883
• Members of the Queensland Legislative Council, 1860–1869
• List of Durham University people

• Mennell, Philip (1892)."Douglas, Hon. John" .The Dictionary of Australasian Biography. London: Hutchinson & Co – viaWikisource.

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