John Douglas (bishop of Salisbury)

Douglas was educated at Dunbar, East Lothian, and at Balliol College, Oxford, where he gained his M.A.

He defended John Milton against William Lauder's charge of plagiarism (1750), and attacked David Hume's rationalism in his Letter on the Criterion of Miracles[1] (1754); he went on to criticise the followers of John Hutchinson in his Apology for the Clergy (1755).

A volume of Miscellaneous Works; prefaced by a short biography, was published posthumously in 1820.

[3] A sister of his kept the British Coffee House, one of London's significant meeting places, especially for Scotsmen.

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