William Douglas (6 June 1848 – 7 September 1887) was a New Zealand cricketer.
[1] Douglas was born at Longford in what was at that point still Van Diemen's Land in 1848 and was educated at Horton College on the island.
[3][5] A leading member of Albion Cricket Club in Dunedin,[6] and later captain of Gore Cricket Club,[7] Douglas played for Otago against a touring Australian side in January 1878 and made his only first-class appearance during the following season in a provincial representative match against Canterbury―the only match played in New Zealand during the season which is considered to hold first-class status.
[1] Douglas had moved to New Zealand during the 1870s, initially working for the government Railway Department.
He died there in 1887 from syncope aged 39, leaving a wife and a daughter.