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James Charlemagne Dormer

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Lieutenant-General The Honourable

Sir James Dormer
"Madras" – Caricature by his daughter Mary Catherine Rees under the pseudonym "Bint" published in Vanity Fair in 1891
Born26 January 1834
Died3 May 1893
AllegianceUnited Kingdom United Kingdom
Service / branch British Army
RankLieutenant-General
CommandsMadras Army
AwardsKnight Commander of the Order of the Bath

Lieutenant General The Honourable Sir James Charlemagne Dormer KCB (26 January 1834 – 3 May 1893) was a British Army officer.

Military career

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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

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  1. ^ a b c Cracroft's Peerage
  2. ^ General Gatacre
  3. ^ 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.

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Military offices
Preceded by GOC British Troops in Egypt
1888–1890
Succeeded by
Preceded by C-in-C, Madras Army
1891–1893
Succeeded by