Patrick Leonard MacDougall
Sir Patrick Leonard MacDougall | |
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Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George | |
Other work | Commandant, author |
Military career
MacDougall was born the only son of Lieutenant Colonel Sir Duncan MacDougall (1787–1862) and Anne, daughter of Colonel
From 1888 to 1891 he was Colonel of the
He died in 1894 at Kingson Hill, London having lived with his second wife at 22 Elvaston Place, London and Melbury Lodge, Kingston Hill, Surrey and was buried at East Putney Cemetery.[5]
He was the author of several military works: The Theory of War (1856), Campaigns of Hannibal (1858),[6] Modern Warfare as influenced by Modern Artillery (1864), The army and its reserves (1869), and Modern infantry tactics (1873).
Family
MacDougall married, firstly, Louisa Augusta Napier[1] (third daughter of Sir William Francis Patrick Napier and Caroline Ameila Fox) on 15 July 1844 in Guernsey and following her death on 8 September 1856, he married Marianne Adelaide Miles[1] (born 1834), eighth daughter of Philip John Miles and Clarissa Peach at St George's Hanover Square on 21 June 1860. Marianne was described as "a charming woman and a well-known amateur water-colour artist" by Lady Glover who stayed with them in Canada. There were no children by either marriage. His first wife's sister Pamela married Philip William Skinner Miles, a son of Philip John Miles.[citation needed]
Awards
He was awarded the medal and clasp for Sebastopol and the Turkish medal. He was appointed a
References
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k "Sir Patrick Leonard MacDougall". Dictionary of Canadian Biography. Retrieved 30 August 2015.
- ^ "West India Regiment". Regiments.org. Archived from the original on 17 January 2006. Retrieved 16 May 2016.
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: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link) - ^ "No. 26228". The London Gazette. 1 December 1891. p. 6650.
- ^ "MacDougall, Patrick Leonard". Dictionary of National Biography, 1901 supplement.
- ^ Patrick Leonard MacDougall (1858). The Campaigns of Hannibal: Arranged and critically considered expressly for the use of students of military history. London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, & Roberts. p. 195.