DURAND

Sir Henry Marion . b. 6 Nov. 1812; ed. at Add is com be; 2 lieut. Bengal engineers 12 June 1828, col. 18 Feb. 1861 to 1867; comr. of Tena erim provinces 1844–46; political agent at court of Scindia 1849–53, at Indore 1857; drove back Tantia Topee and saved Central India 1857; member of council of sec. of state of India 1859–61; foreign sec. at Calcutta 1861–65; military member of governor general’s council 10 April 1865 to 1870; L.G. 1 March 1867; lieut. governor of the Punjaub 5 May 1870 to death; C.B. 24 March 1858; K.C.S.I. 8 Feb. 1867; author of Notes on the field equipment of the Engineers 1844; The first Afghan war 1879. d. from a fall from an elephant in the camp at Tonk 135 miles west of Peshawur 1 Jany. 1871. bur. at Dera Is mail Khan 5 Jany. Life of Sir H. M. Durand by H. M. Durand 2 vols. 1873, portrait ; C. R. Low’s Soldiers of the Victorian age ii , 44–79 (1880); Good Words xiv , 575, 706 (1873). D’URBAN, William James . Cornet 14 Dragoons 7 Oct. 1819; deputy quartermaster general North America 1 Dec. 1848 to 1 May 1857 when placed on half pay; col. 107 Foot 13 Aug. 1868 to death; L.G. 20 June 1870. d. Newport house near Exeter 5 Dec. 1873 aged 73.