Algernon Durand

From the frontispiece of The Making of a Frontier

Algernon George Arnold Durand, CB, CIE (31 March 1854 – 8 October 1923) was a British soldier.

He was the third son of General Henry Marion Durand and younger brother of Edward, 1st Baronet Durand, and Mortimer.[1]

He fought in the Second Anglo-Afghan War (1878–1880) at the Battle of Kandahar on 1 September 1880.[2] He served as the district agent at Gilgit (1889–1894). In 1891, as a colonel, he commanded the successful Hunza–Nagar campaign, in which he was wounded. He wrote an account of the campaign, The Making of a Frontier, published in 1899. He was the military secretary to Lord Elgin, Viceroy of India (1894–1899), whose niece, Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Charles Bruce, he married. He served at court as a Gentlemen at Arms.[1] He was one of the founding members of the Central Asian Society in 1901.[3]

References

  1. 1 2 T. H. H., "Obituary: Algernon Durand", Journal of The Royal Central Asian Society 11.1 (1924): 114.
  2. ↑ G. A. Raikes, Roll of the Officers of the York and Lancaster Regiment (London, 1885), p. 64.
  3. ↑ Ivor Lucas (2002), "The Foundation of the Central Asian Society, 1901", Asian Affairs 33.1 (2002): 25–27 doi:10.1080/714041458

Further reading

  • Anderson, Dorothy. "The Friends at Gilgit, 1888–95: Algernon Durand and George Scott Robertson". Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research 83.333 (2005): 43–62. JSTOR 44231143
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