James Charlemagne Dormer
Lieutenant-General The Honourable Sir James Dormer | |
|---|---|
Lieutenant-General | |
| Commands held | Madras Army |
| Awards | Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath |
KCB (26 January 1834 – 3 May 1893) was a British Army
officer.
Military career
Dormer was the younger son of Joseph Thaddeus Dormer, 11th
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
- ^ a b c 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
- ISBN 0806314362.