RARE "1st Baron Glenbervie" Sylvester Douglas Hand Signed 4X6 Card For Sale

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RARE "1st Baron Glenbervie" Sylvester Douglas Hand Signed 4X6 Card:
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Up for sale a RARE! "1st Baron Glenbervie" Sylvester Douglas Hand Signed 4X6 Card.

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Sylvester Douglas, 1st Baron Glenbervie of Kincardine

PC, KC,

FRS,

FRSE, FSA (24 May 1743 – 2 May

1823) was a British lawyer, politician and diarist. He was Chief Secretary for Ireland between 1793

and 1794. Douglas was the son of John Douglas, descended from James Douglas,

minister of Glenbervie in Aberdeenshire,

son of Sir Archibald Douglas and

half-brother of William Douglas, 9th Earl of Angus.

His mother was Margaret Gordon, daughter and co-heir of James Gordon, of

Fechel. He was educated at the University of Aberdeen, graduating MA in

1765 and then studied both Law and Medicine at the University of Leyden. He was admitted to Lincoln's Inn

in London

in 1771, was called to the Bar in 1776, and became King's

Counsel in 1793.  The same year he was appointed a

King's Counsel Douglas gave up his legal career on his appointment as Chief Secretary for Ireland under William Pitt the Younger. In 1794 he was

admitted to both the Irish[4] and English Privy Council and returned to the Irish House of Commons for St Canice, a seat he held

until 1796. In 1795 he was elected to the British House of Commons for Fowey. He later

represented Midhurst between 1796 and

1800, Plympton Erle between 1801

and 1802 and Hastings between 1802 and

1806. He was asked to accompany Earl Macartney to the Cape of Good

Hope in 1796 and, after 18 months there, to succeed him as governor.

His wife did not like the idea and he declined the offer, even though an Irish

peerage had also been offered. In 1797 Douglas was made a Lord of the Treasury by Pitt, In 1800

Douglas was asked for a second time to go to the Cape as governor.[13] He finally agreed in October 1800,

again for an Irish peerage and was so appointed Governor of

the Cape of Good Hope, Douglas changed his mind again and accepted a

post as Joint Paymaster of HM Forces, subsequently receiving £2731. 10s. in

salary, paid from the Cape Treasury, even though he never went there. At the

end of the year he was created Baron Glenbervie of Kincardine, in Scotland. After

serving as joint Paymaster of the Forces between 1801 and

1803 and Vice-President of the Board of Trade

between 1801 and 1804, he was Surveyor

General of Woods, Forests, Parks, and Chases between 1803 and 1806and

1807 and 1810. On the office of the Surveyor

General of the Land Revenues of the Crown being combined with the

former in 1810, became the First Commissioner of Woods and

Forests, the head of the new department. He held the office until

1814. Lord Glenbervie was also Rector of King's College, Aberdeen

between 1805 and 1814.[

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