Following the Slavery Abolition Act of 1833, Francis received a considerable sum in compensation for his father's loss (his father being deceased) of 245 slaves on the Sans Souci Estate on St Vincent. This sum, probably received around 1845, totalled £6,418.[1]
His home for most of his life was 21 Moray Place[4] in the fashionable West End.
He died at Melville House in Fife on 8 August 1885. He is buried in Dean Cemetery in the west of Edinburgh. The grave lies on the western wall at the southern end of Lord's Row.[5]
Melville House, where Douglas diedThe grave of Francis Brown Douglas, Dean Cemetery
Family
He was brother to Dr Archibald Douglas and cousin to Dr A. Halliday Douglas.[6]
He was married twice: firstly in 1845 to Mary Turner Christie at Scoonie in Fife; secondly in 1852 to the wealthy Marianne Leslie-Melville (1827-1899), by whom he had nine children.[7]
His eldest son, Francis Archibald Brown Douglas (b.1854) was also an advocate after studying law at the University of Cambridge,
His second son was Charles Christie Brown Douglas (b.1857).
