Elias Walker Durnford
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Major General Elias Walker Durnford R.E (July 28, 1774 - March 8, 1850) was the builder of the Citadel, Quebec City.
Durnford was born in 1774 in Lowestoft, Norfolk. He was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in the Corps of Royal Engineers on April 24, 1793. Durnford married Jane Sophia Mann on October 30, 1798. On January 10, 1837 he removed from the Corps, on being promoted to the rank of Major General. Major General Elias Walker Durnford R.E. died in 1850 in Clarence Villa, Tunbridge Wells, Kent, at the age of 75.
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