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Benjamin D'Urban (1773 - 1849)
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Son of John D'Urban and Elizabeth (Gooch) D'Urban
Brother of Shute D'Urban[half], Elizabeth (D'Urban) Blyth[half], Sophia D'Urban[half], Charles D'Urban[half] and Dorothea D'Urban[half]
DescendantsFather of John Gooch D'Urban, Thomas Gooch D'Urban, George Frederick D'Urban, Anna Elizabeth Lucy (D'Urban) Musgrave, William James D'Urban, Walter Robert D'Urban and Henrietta Margaretha (D'Urban) Drury
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Biography
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Born 16 FEB 1777. Halesworth, Suffolk, England. [2][3]
Died 25 MAY 1849. Montreal, Quebec, Canada. [4][5][6]
AMTID 432239969802:1030:114629367.
Residence Returned to England in command of remnant of his regiment. APR 1779. England APR 1797. Plymouth, England. Note: In that year exchanged into 20th Dragoons and acted as an aide-de-camp to Major general the Earl of Pembroke,commanding at Plymouth until May 1799. JUL 1799. Jamaica Note: Accompanied Major-general St John to Jamaica as aide-de-camp but returned in November being promoted t
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Benjamin D'Urban
British general and colonial administrator
Lieutenant GeneralSir Benjamin D'UrbanGCB KCH FRS (16 February 1777 – 25 May 1849) was a British general and colonial administrator, who is best known for his frontier policy when he was the Governor in the Cape Colony (now in South Africa). Durban (formerly called Port Natal), the third-largest city in South Africa, was renamed in his honor.
Early career
[edit]D'Urban was born in Halesworth, the youngest but only surviving son of Benjamin D'Urban, and joined the British Army in 1793, enlisting as a cornet in the Queen's Bays at the age of sixteen. He made rapid progress in the Army and distinguished himself in the Peninsular War. Assigned to the Portuguese army, he was quartermaster general and chief-of-staff to William Carr Beresford, 1st Viscount Beresford. He served in all the principal sieges and battles, never asked to go on leave, and was laden with honours, being appointed Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath, Knight Commander of the Royal Guelphic Order, and Commander of the Portuguese Order of the Tower and Sword. He received the Army Gold Cross and five clasps for the battles of Busaco, Albuera, Badajoz, Salamanca, Vitoria, the Pyrenees, Nivelle, the Nive, and Toulouse.
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Dictionary of Public Biography, 1885-1900/D'Urban, Benjamin
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