Douglas Alston Gilchrist

Douglas Alston Gilchrist FRSE FHAS (1860-1927) was a Scottish-born professor of agriculture; author and government advisor.

He was the older brother of the suffragist Marion Gilchrist who, like himself, attended the famous Hamilton Academy school.

[1][2][3][4][5] In 1889 Gilchrist was appointed Director of the Agricultural Department, University College of North Wales, Bangor, leaving this position in 1894 to take up the professorship in agriculture at the old Reading College, a position he held until 1902 when he was appointed Professor in Agriculture and Rural Economy, Armstrong College, Durham University, a Chair he was to hold up to his death in 1927.

His proposers were Alexander Crum Brown, Andrew Peebles Aitken, Robert Wallace and Leonard Dobbin.

Gilchrist was the author of numerous academic Papers and an advisor on agriculture to government.