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James Douglas, 14th Earl of Morton

James Douglas, 14th Earl of Morton KT PRS (1702 – 12 October 1768) was a Scottish astronomer and representative peer who was President of the Philosophical Society of Edinburgh from its foundation in 1737 until his death. He also became President of the Royal Society (24 March 1764), and was a distinguished patron of science, and particularly of astronomy.
He graduated MA from King's College, Cambridge in 1722.〔Anita Guerrini, ('Douglas, James, fourteenth earl of Morton (1702–1768)' ), ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, Sept 2004; online edn, Oct 2005. Retrieved 26 August 2008. So also the original ''DNB''〕 In 1746 he visited France, and was imprisoned in the Bastille, probably as a Jacobite.
==See also==

*Moreton Bay in Queensland, Australia was named after Lord Morton by Captain Cook (the spelling being an error in the published account of Cook's voyage)

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