match record of won eight, lost eight, drawn two. Successful as stand-in captain in Australia in 1911, he won the series 4–1. On the 1920/21 tour of Australia he led a depleted post-war side which suffered a 0–5 'whitewash', a scoreline not repeated in an Ashes series until the 2006/7 England team lost by the same margin. Reappointed reluctantly by the M.C.C. in 1921, he lost the first two Tests at home to Warwick Armstrong's side and was displaced as captain but retained in the XI. He captained England in one further Test match, against South Africa in July 1924, and played his final Test on the 1924/25 England tour of Australia. Later life Douglas married Evelyn Ruby (sister of two of his close wartime friends), the widow of Captain Thomas Elphinstone Case, of the Coldstream Guards, and daughter of Adolphus Ferguson, on 25 December 1916. He had no children but one stepson, the actor Gerald Case. Douglas drowned when the Finnish passenger ship , on which he and his father were sailing back to Britain after buying timber in Finland, sank in the Kattegat seven miles south of the Læsø Trindel Lightship, Denmark. Another ship of the same line, Arcturus, had rammed her in fog after the two captains, who were brothers, had tried to exchange Christmas greetings. According to a witness at the post mortem enquiry, Douglas may have been trying to save his father. He was aged 48. References Bibliography External links 1882 births 1930 deaths People educated at Felsted School English male boxers England Test cricketers England Test cricket captains English cricketers English cricketers of 1890 to 1918 English Olympic medallists Essex cricketers Essex cricket captains London County cricketers Wisden Cricketers of the Year Olympic boxers of Great Britain Boxers at the 1908 Summer Olympics Olympic gold medallists for Great Britain Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment officers British Army personnel of World War I England cricket team selectors Olympic medalists in boxing Free Foresters cricketers Gentlemen of the South cricketers English footballers Corinthian F.C. players Footballers from Stoke Newington Cricketers from Greater London Gentlemen cricketers Marylebone Cricket Club cricketers Gentlemen of England cricketers Deaths due to shipwreck at sea Accidental deaths in Denmark Medalists at the 1908 Summer Olympics England Boxing champions North v South cricketers Boxers from Greater London English cricketers of 1919 to 1945 Association footballers not categorized by position H. D. G. Leveson Gower's