James Charlemagne Dormer
Lieutenant General The Honourable Sir James Charlemagne Dormer KCB (26 January 1834 – 3 May 1893) was a British Army officer.
Sir James Dormer | |
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 "Madras". Caricature by his daughter Mary Catherine Rees under the pseudonym "Bint" published in Vanity Fair in 1891 | |
| Born | 26 January 1834 |
| Died | 3 May 1893 |
| Allegiance |  United Kingdom |
| Service/ |  British Army |
| Rank | Lieutenant-General |
| Commands held | Madras Army |
| Awards | Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath |
Military career
Dormer was the younger son of Joseph Thaddeus Dormer, 11th Baron Dormer. He became Chief of Staff of army of occupation in Egypt in 1882, Deputy Adjutant-General for auxiliary forces in 1885 and General Officer Commanding commanding Dublin District in 1886.[1] He went to command the British Troops in Egypt in 1888 and become Commander-in-Chief of the Madras Army and a Member of the Council of the Governor of Fort St George in 1891.[1] He died from injuries on 3rd May after being mauled by a tiger while on a hunt on 25 April 1893 in the Nilgiris. He was succeeded by General Mansfield Clarke as commander-in-chief of the Madras Army.[2][3] His eldest son Roland succeeded his uncle as Baron Dormer.[1]
References
- Cracroft's Peerage
- General Gatacre
- Burgess, James (1913). The chronology of Modern India, for four hundred years from the close of the fifteenth century, A.D. 1494-1894. Edinburgh: John Grant. p. 427.
Sources
- The Plantagenet Roll of the Blood Royal: being a complete table of all the descendants now living of Edward III, King of England. The Anne of Exeter volume. Genealogical Pub. Co. 1994. p. 276. ISBN 0806314362.