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'''Francis Campbell Ross Douglas, 1st Baron Douglas of Barloch''' [[Order of St Michael and St George|KCMG]] (21 October 1889 – 30 March 1980), was a British journalist, solicitor and [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour Party]] politician.
==Early life==
Douglas was born in Wakopa, [[Manitoba]], [[Canada]] to a Scottish family. He was educated at [[Glasgow University]] and later became a partner in Douglas & Company, solicitors, and also worked as a journalist. A member of [[Metropolitan Borough of Battersea|Battersea Borough Council]], he was [[mayor]] of Battersea in 1922–1923.<ref>{{cite news|title=New Mayors. Four Women Chosen., Elections In London And Country.|newspaper=[[The Times]]|date=10 November 1922|page=7}}</ref>
==Parliamentary career==
Having unsuccessfully fought [[Yeovil (UK Parliament constituency)|Yeovil]] in [[1929 United Kingdom general election|1929]], he was elected as the [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|Member of Parliament]] (MP) for [[Battersea North (UK Parliament constituency)|Battersea North]] at a [[1940 Battersea North by-election|by-election in 1940]], a seat he held until [[1946 Battersea North by-election|1946]], and served as [[Parliamentary Private Secretary]] to the [[Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Education]] from 1940 to 1945 and to the [[Home Secretary]] from 1945 to 1946 ([[James Chuter Ede]] held both positions).
He was an advocate of [[Land value tax|land-value rating]] and in 1936 wrote a book, revised in 1961, "to present a concise summary of the economic arguments in favour of the rating of land values".<ref>{{cite book |last1=Douglas of Barloch |first1=Francis |title=Land-Value Rating |date=1961 |publisher=Christopher Johnson |location=London |edition=Revised}}</ref>
==After the Commons==
In 1946 Douglas resigned from the [[House of Commons of the United Kingdom|House of Commons]] on being appointed [[Governor-General of Malta|Governor of Malta]], which he remained until 1949. Douglas was made a [[Order of St Michael and St George|KCMG]] in 1947 and in 1950 he was raised to the peerage as '''Baron Douglas of Barloch''', of Maxfield in the County of Sussex.<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=38888 |date=18 April 1950 |page=1873 }}</ref> He was also a member of the [[Public Works Loan Board]] from 1936 to 1946 and of the Railway Assessment Committee from 1938 to 1946 and served as Chairman of the Finance Committee of the [[London County Council]] from 1940 to 1946. After being raised to the peerage he was a Deputy Speaker of the [[House of Lords]].
Lord Douglas of Barloch died in March 1980, aged 90. The title became extinct on his death.
==References==
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*[http://www.aim25.ac.uk/cgi-bin/search2?coll_id=2835&inst_id=1 Francis Douglas, 1st Baron Douglas of Barloch at Archives in London and the M25 area]
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