Editing C. H. Douglas (section)

==Education and engineering career==
C.H. Douglas was born in either [[Edgeley]] or [[Manchester]],<ref name="Martin-Nielsen p. 97">Martin-Nielsen, "An Engineer's View of an Ideal Society", p. 97</ref> the son of Hugh Douglas and his wife Louisa (Hordern) Douglas. Few details are known about his early life and training; he probably served an [[engineering apprentice]]ship before beginning an engineering career that brought him to locations throughout the [[British Empire]] in the employ of electric companies, railways and other institutions.<ref name="Martin-Nielsen p. 97" />  He taught at [[Stockport Grammar School]]. After a period in industry, he went up to [[Pembroke College, Cambridge]] at the age of 31 but stayed only four terms and left without graduating.<ref name=DNB>{{ODNBweb|id=32872|title=Douglas, Clifford Hugh|last = Pottle | first = Mark}}</ref> 

He worked for the [[Westinghouse Electric Corporation]] of America and claimed to have been the Reconstruction Engineer for the British Westinghouse Company in India (the company has no record of him ever working there<ref name=DNB/>), Deputy Chief Engineer of the Buenos Aires and Pacific Railway Company, Railway Engineer of the [[London Post Office Railway|London Post Office (Tube) Railway]] and Assistant Superintendent of the [[Royal Aircraft Factory]] [[Farnborough Airfield|Farnborough]] during [[World War I]], with a temporary commission as captain in the [[Royal Flying Corps]].<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=29448|supp=y|page=977|date=21 January 1916}}</ref> His second wife was [[Edith Mary Douglas]], President of the Women's Engineering Society.