Loudon MacQueen Douglas FRSE (1863–1944) was an engineer, author, antiquarian, dairy expert and pig-breeder. He was co-founder of William Douglas Ltd of Edinburgh (1888) and London (1890).
He was born in Colinton, south-west of Edinburgh in 1863, the son of William Douglas and Marion Hunter.
In 1910 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Gerald Rowley Leighton, Robert Wallace, James Macdonald, and R Stewart MacDougall.
He served as President of the Scottish Society in 1914.
He died on 27 January 1944.
Publications
Manual of the Pork Trade (1893) Pigs: Breeds and Management (1897). Fourth Edition (1905) at the Internet Archive Douglas's Receipt Book for the Bacon, Pork, and Meat Trades (189?) Refrigeration in the Dairy (1904) The Origins and Development of the Meat Trade (1907) The Meat Industry and Meat Inspections (1910) The Bacillus of Long Life: A Manual for the Preparation and Souring of Milk for Dietary Purposes (1911) (an early recognition of the health-giving properties of yoghurt) The Kilt: A Manual of Scottish National Dress (1914)
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