He served in the Royal Navy, promoted to Lieutenant in 1815 on HMS Doris, under Captain Robert O'Brien, then on the East India station.
[5] George Douglas of Chilston Park (died 1833) was a slave-owner in Trinidad and Tobago; he left property to Margaret and her husband.
[7] A further inheritance towards the end of his life led to him styling himself James Douglas of Baads; it related to the Scottish estate of Baads in West Calder (also Badds), which had earlier passed from George Douglas to Alexander Houston-Douglas, then Elizabeth Houston-Douglas.
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