Henry Percival Douglass
1859 - 1927

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• Henry Percival Douglass
• Arrangement of material
• About the Geelong Lawyers' Collection
• Lawyers and law associations in the collection

Henry Percival Douglass by Vivian Hill
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Many Geelong lawyers have made contributions to local society.  H.P. Douglass was associated with three institutions of great influence in the social structure of Geelong.  They were in 1888 when he commenced his legal career in partnership with Richard Robinson and remain so in 1999.  They are the newspaper, the Geelong Advertiser, the internationally known public school, Geelong Grammar School and the sporting body with the greatest local following, the Geelong Football Club.  Douglass resided in Geelong's most significant building, "Corio Villa" an ornamental cast iron house on Eastern Beach described by E. Graeme Robertson, the expert on such matters, as "the most ornate and historically fascinating cast iron building in Australia".

H.P. Douglass' father, Alfred Douglass arrived in Tasmania in 1835.  He was 14 years of age and immediately commenced employment in a business.  Throughout his life he followed that business instinct.  In 1861 he bought the Geelong Advertiser following the bankruptcy of its founding editor, Harrison.  H.P. Douglass became the managing director of that business, played football in Geelong's first twenty and was a consistent supporter of that club and his school, Geelong Grammar School.

Arrangement of material

The list below describes material held in the Henry Percival Douglass archive box, which is located at 340.099452 Dougla Hil/Hpd on the shelves in the Geelong Lawyers' Collection within the Special Collection at the Waterfront campus.  The material has been arranged in date order. 

Date	Title	Item no.
[18--]	Portrait as member of Geelong Yacht Club [Click on image to enlarge it]	HD1
1893	Portrait	HD2
1922	2 photographs of passport for Douglass and his wife	HD3
18/5/1927	Typewritten obituary from Geelong Advertiser [First page of extract. Click on image to enlarge it]	HD4
9/1976	Photocopied extract from Investigator re. Eastern Park	HD5
8/9/1987	Photocopied extract from Geelong Advertiser re purchase of land for Corio Chambers	HD6
9/1991	Extract from Investigator re. history of the building known as Corio Chambers	HD7
1996	Photocopied extract from Geelong Grammarians re. Henry Percival Douglass	HD8
1999	Photograph of Corio Villa, 56 Eastern Beach, Geelong, the home of H.P. Douglass [Click on image to enlarge it]	HD9
1999	Photograph of Corio Villa, 56 Eastern Beach, Geelong, the home of H.P. Douglass [Click on image to enlarge it]	HD10
7/2001	Photograph of Corio Chambers cnr. Yarra & Malop Sts, Geelong where H.P. Douglas commenced practice..	HD11

Additional note:

• Henry Douglass is also mentioned in the Harwood and Pincott archive box:

-  partnership agreement with Pincott, Douglass, Griffiths, Wilson, Harwood 14/12/1901
- summary history of Harwood & Pincott by R. Annois

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