Men-at-the-Bar/Akers-Douglas, Aretas

by Joseph Foster

Akers-Douglas, Aretas, M.P. East Kent since April, 1880, lieut. East Kent yeomanry since 1877, J.P. Kent and Dumfriesshire, undergrad. Univ. Coll., Oxon, from Eton, a student of the Inner Temple 6 Nov., 1871 (as Aretas Akers, then aged 20), called to the bar 26 Jan., 1875, assumed the additional surname and arms of Douglas by royal licence 1875 (eldest son of late Rev. Aretas Akers, of Mailing Abbey, Kent, clerk in holy orders); born 21 Oct., 1851; married 10 June, 1875, Adeline Mary, dau. of Horatio Austen Smith, Esq., of Hayes Court, Kent, and has issue.

Chilston Park, Maidstone; Craigs, Dumfries; West Calder, Edinburgh; Carlton and Union Clubs.