Francis Brown Douglas

Francis Brown Douglas FRSE DL (2 April 1814 – 8 August 1885) was a Scottish advocate who served as the Lord Provost of Edinburgh from 1859 to 1862.

He was born in Largs in Ayrshire on 2 April 1814, the son of Archibald Douglas, also an advocate, and Jane Brown of Bellair on the island of St. Vincent.

[1] In 1839 he was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh his proposer was John Shank More.

[3] On 7 August 1860 he oversaw, as Lord Provost of Edinburgh, the Great Review for Queen Victoria and the Royal Family, which involved over 20,000 persons.

[6] He was married twice: firstly in 1845 to Mary Turner Christie at Scoonie in Fife; secondly in 1852 to the wealthy Marianne Leslie-Melville, with whom he had nine children.

Douglas's family home at 21 Moray Place in Edinburgh
Melville House, where Douglas died
The grave of Francis Brown Douglas, Dean Cemetery