Sir James Brown Dougherty, KCB, KCVO, PC (Ire) (13 November 1844 – 3 January 1934[1]) was an Irish clergyman, academic, civil servant and politician.
In 1880, he married Mary (née Donaldson) (d.1887), of The Park, Nottingham, with whom he had a son, John Gerald Dougherty (born 1883).
In 1888, he married Elizabeth (née Todd), of Oaklands, Rathgar, County Dublin.
[3] Ordained a Presbyterian minister, he was Professor of Logic and English at then-Presbyterian Magee College, Londonderry from 1879 to 1895.
Dougherty was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath (Civil Division) (CB) in the 1900 Birthday Honours list.