Henry Alexander Douglas (22 February 1821 – 13 December 1875)[1] was the third Bishop of Bombay from 1869 to 1875.
[2] Born into a noble family[3] he was a son of Henry Alexander Douglas of Lockerbie and Elizabeth Dalzell, who both died in 1837.
His father was the third son of Sir William Douglas, 4th Baronet of Kelhead, and was a brother of the sixth and seventh Marquesses of Queensberry.
[5] He was Vicar of Abbotsley (1849-55), then Dean of Cape Town before his elevation to the episcopate, he was a "moderate high churchman".
[clarification needed][6] His successor as Dean of Cape Town was a long serving Charles Barnett-Clarke.