Colonel Walter Douglas (1670–1739) was Captain-General and Governor-General of the Leeward Islands.
[1] Walter Douglas appears to have been educated at the University of Utrecht, which he is said to have left to join King William of Orange when he invaded England in 1688.
[4] Governor Douglas had been tried by the Court of King's Bench and found guilty of bribery and extortion, having exacted £10,000 from the Island of Antigua before publishing the Queen's pardon for those involved in the killing of his predecessor.
In 1720 he succeeded to the estate of Baads on the renunciation of his brother William but then sold it.
His grandson was Col John St Leger Douglas, MP.