Henry Marion Durand
Major-General Sir Henry Marion Durand, CB KCSI (6 November 1812 – 1 January 1871) was a British army officer and colonial administrator.[1]
Career
After training at the East India Company's Military Seminary at Addiscombe (1827-8), Durand left Britain for India in 1829, arriving in May 1830. He served initially as Second Lieutenant in the Bengal Engineers. He attained the rank of Major-General, and served in the First Afghan War (1839–1842), and the Second Anglo-Sikh War (1848–1849). He also served as Commissioner of Tenasserim (1844–1846), as Resident of Gwalior (1849–1852), and Acting Resident of Baroda (March 1852 – March 1854). During the Indian Rebellion (1857–1858), he served as a military commander in western Malwa. He served finally as Lieutenant-Governor of the Punjab (1 June 1870 – 1 January 1871).
Family
His son, Sir Henry Mortimer Durand, served in the Indian Civil Service and later in the British diplomatic service. He lived at Furness Lodge east Sheen, Richmond. He is buried in a Church in Dera Ismail Khan, Khyber Pukhtunkhwa, Pakistan.
Death
On the evening of 31 December 1870 he was thrown from an elephant as it attempted to pass under a low gateway in the city of Tonk (now Tank, Pakistan). He fell heavily, and died the following day.[2][3]
References
- ↑ The London Gazette, 14 May 1867 http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/23250/pages/2759/page.pdf
- ↑ Durand 1883, pp. 446–7.
- ↑ Vibart 1894, pp. 436–7.
Stephen, Leslie, ed. (1888). "Durand, Henry Marion". Dictionary of National Biography 16. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
Further reading
- The First Afghan War and Its Causes
- Durand, H.M. (1883). The Life of Major-General Sir Henry Marion Durand, KCSI, CB, of the Royal Engineers. London: W.H. Allen.
- Vibart, H.M. (1894). Addiscombe: its heroes and men of note. Westminster: Archibald Constable. pp. 431–8.
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