Dugald McDougall

McDougall was born in Derry, Ireland, in 1834. He settled in the Colony of Victoria in Australia in 1852^[2] and joined a business firm in which he became a partner in 1860 and in 1873 he became senior partner with the firm becoming well-known under the name Sands and McDougall largely due to his business acumen.^[3]

In 1860 McDougall settled in Hawthorn where he constructed the property Summerlee in approximately 1865 and became a leading member of the local Presbyterian Church.^[4] In June 1860 he was elected as one of seven inaugural members of the Hawthorn Municipal Council when the body was established,^[5] and he served on the Council until 1867 serving as the Council Chairman from 1862 to 1863.^[4]

In 1885 McDougall suffered a lengthy illness^[2] before dying at his residence in Hawthorn.^[3]

McDougall married Mary Allott Chisholm of Melbourne. One of their children was Dugald Gordon McDougall (1867-1944) who became a professor of law at the University of Sydney.^[6]