Major-General Sir William Douglas KCH (8 September 1770 – 14 April 1834) was a Scottish officer in the British Army.
[1] General Sir John Coape Sherbrooke, commander of the British forces in the Atlantic provinces, led an expedition into the long-disputed borderland between Passamaquoddy Bay and the Penobscot River, which he renamed the colony of New Ireland.
Sherbrooke led an expeditionary force that August which successfully landed at Castine and proceeded to subdue the entire region between the Penobscot and the St Croix.
[1] In 1810, he married Marianne Tattersall, with whom he had several children (7 or 9, depending on sources), including a son born in Cork in 1817.
[2] Accused of killing a bullock whilst posted to Alderney,[2] and on denying it, George was subsequently tried and convicted on his 30th Birthday in 1849 for conduct unbecoming an officer.