James Charlemagne Dormer

British Army officer

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
Commands heldMadras 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

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

  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.

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.
Military offices
Preceded by
Sir Frederick Stephenson
 GOC British Troops in Egypt
1888–1890 		Succeeded by
Sir Frederick Forestier-Walker
Preceded by
Sir Charles Arbuthnot
 C-in-C, Madras Army
1891–1893 		Succeeded by