Douglas, John Brown

(1855–1935)

lawyer, professor, writer

Biographical information

David Baird Smith, “The Founder,” pp. 5–6 in R. W. Chambers, King Lear: The First W.P. Ker Memorial Lecture (1940): took degree in Classics from Glasgow Universitiy in 1875; qualified as solicitor in 1882; “He was an exact and careful scholar and was interested in textual questions. He never wrote anything and was inarticulate.” A friend of W. P. Ker; endowed the W. P. Ker Lectureship and also the Douglas Chair of Civil Law at Glasgow University

Gender

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Notes

“Gigadibs” from Browning’s " “Bishop Blougram’s Apology”. “J. B. Douglas” from NQ 5.2.329 to 11.9.471

Articles

Writing as Gigadibs