Governor of New Brunswick
Howard Douglas took which position from Aug 1824 to Sep 1831?
Howard Douglas General Sir Howard Douglas , 3rd Baronet ( 23 January 1776 – 9 November 1861 ) was a British military officer born in Gosport , England , the younger son of Admiral Sir Charles Douglas , and a descendant of the Earls of Morton . He was an English army general , author , colonial administrator and Member of Parliament for Liverpool . Early life . Following the death of his mother , Sarah Wood Douglas , in 1779 , Howard was raised by his aunt , Helena Baillie , near Edinburgh . As a boy , he wanted to join the Royal Navy and follow in the footsteps of his father and older brother . His father agreed to take him to sea when he was 13 , but Sir Charles died of apoplexy while in Edinburgh just after he arrived to collect Howard in 1789 . Howards guardians thought it better that he serve in the Army instead , and he entered the Royal Military Academy , Woolwich , in 1790 . He was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the Royal Artillery in 1794 , becoming Lieutenant a few months later . Early career . In 1795 he was shipwrecked while in charge of a draft for Canada , and lived with his men for a whole winter on the Labrador coast . Soon after his return to England in 1799 he was made a Captain-Lieutenant . In his regimental service during the next few years , he was attached to all branches of the artillery in succession , becoming Captain in 1804 , after which he was placed on half-pay to serve at the Royal Military College ( RMC ) , then located at High Wycombe . He taught military strategy and was an authority on military and naval engineering . He served intermittently as commandant of the senior department and as inspector general of instructions at the RMC . In 1804 , Douglas was appointed to a majority in the York Rangers , a corps immediately afterwards reduced . He remained on the roll of its officers until promoted Major-General . The senior department of the RMC at High Wycombe , of which he was in charge , was the forerunner of the Staff College . Douglas was promoted brevet Lieutenant-Colonel in 1806 . He served in 1808–09 in the Peninsular War and was present at the Battle of Corunna , after which he took part in the Walcheren Campaign . On the death of his half-brother , Vice-Admiral Sir William Douglas in 1809 , he succeeded to the baronetcy . In 1812 he was employed in special missions in the north of Spain , and took part in numerous minor operations in that region , but he was soon recalled , the Home Government deeming his services indispensable to the Royal Military College . He became brevet Colonel in 1814 and CB in 1815 . He became a fellow of the Royal Society on 25 January 1816 . Early writings and promotion to Major-General . In 1816 appeared his Essay on the Principles and Construction of Military Bridges , in 1819 , Observations on the Motives , Errors and Tendency of M . Carnots System of Defence , and in the following year his A Treatise on Naval Gunnery ( of which numerous editions and translations appeared up to the general introduction of rifled ordnance ) . In 1821 he was promoted Major-General . Douglass criticisms of Carnot led to an important experiment being carried out at Woolwich in 1822 , and his Naval Gunnery became a standard text-book , and indeed first drew attention to the subject of which it treated . Lieutenant-Governor of New Brunswick . Sir Howard Douglas became Governor of New Brunswick ( 1823–31 ) . He had to deal with the Maine boundary dispute with the United States of 1828 . He also founded Fredericton College ( Kings College ) , now known as the University of New Brunswick , of which he was the first Chancellor . He was governor during the Miramichi fire of 1825 , and his actions during that crisis increased his popularity with the people of the province . He secured a charter for Kings College at Fredericton ( later the University of New Brunswick ) . Some subsequent light is shed on local society in his period of office in the novel Lady Rosamonds Secret . A Romance of Fredericton ( 1878 ) by the Rebecca Agatha Armour . Later career in Europe . On his return to Europe he was employed in various missions , and he published about this time Naval Evolutions , a controversial work dealing with the question of breaking the line . From 1835 to 1840 Douglas , now a GCMG , was Lord High Commissioner of the Ionian Islands , where , amongst other reforms , he introduced a new code of laws . In 1837 he became a Lieutenant-General , in 1840 a KCB , in 1841 a civil GCB , and in 1851 a full general . He was given the colonelcy of the 99th ( Lanarkshire ) Regiment of Foot from 1841 to 1851 when he transferred as colonel to the 15th ( the Yorkshire East Riding ) Regiment of Foot , a position he held until his death in 1861 . From 1842 to 1847 Douglas sat as a Conservative Member of Parliament ( MP ) for Liverpool , where he took a prominent part in debates on military and naval matters and on the corn laws . He was frequently consulted on important military questions . His later works included Observations on the Modern System of Fortification . and On Naval Warfare With Steam Sir Howard Douglas died in Tunbridge Wells . He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society , and one of the founders of the Royal Geographical Society . He was awarded an honorary Doctor of Civil Law from the University of Oxford . Shortly before his death he declined the offer of a military GCB . Family life . In 1797 , while in Quebec City , Douglas fathered a daughter , Margaret ( or Marguerite ) , but did not marry the mother , Catherine Normandeau . In 1799 , he returned to England , and in July of that year he married Anne Dundas , daughter of James Dundas . They had ten children , Major Charles Douglas , James Dundas Douglas , Howard Douglas , General Sir Robert Percy Douglas , 4th Baronet of Carr , Reverend William Frederick Douglas , Ann Douglas , Christina Douglas , Lucy Douglas , Sarah Mary Harcourt Douglas , and Mary Douglas . References . Notes Citations External links . - Biography at the Centre for Newfoundland Studies Archives , Memorial University Library Website - Sir Howard Douglas