William Archer Sholto Douglas

Life
1886-[?]; b. Dervock, Co. Antrim; British Army, 1900-07; emig. USA in 1908, fought as captain of US Tank Corps in WWI; a novel, Long John Murray (London: Faber 1936), novel dealing with Belfast in the 1886 riots, against historical backdrop of ancient colonial memories of Jacobite plantations; the old landlordism and the Orange Order are ridiculed; other non-fiction works. IF2

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Criticism
Robert J Casey, William Archer Sholto Douglas (New York: McGraw-Hill 1951).

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