Douglas
was
born in Kilburn on July 12th 1912, was educated at Kilburn Grammar
School and took a degree in mathematics at Queen Mary College, London. After
some years’ teaching in maintained schools he came to K.C. in 1935. Apart from
service as R.A.F. Met. Officer in the Middle East (where he was mentioned in
dispatches), K.C. was his life.
He transformed the teaching and mathematical expectations of his classes from the start by the skill, patience, enthusiasm and conscientiousness of his teaching of the ablest and less gifted alike. With the same analytical precision he raised the standard of hockey after the War, later being elected President of the Kent Schools Hockey Association. His versatility and involvement in the school were patent: Senior Resident Housemaster; school tennis coach; President of the Science Society; Treasurer and later President of the Old Canterburian Club; Acting Headmaster.
In 1972 he married a war-time friend, Mrs. Kay Munro. He died after a short illness on April 7th 1978.