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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.
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Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/D'Urban, Benjamin
D'URBAN, Sir BENJAMIN (1777–1849), lieutenant-general, entered the army as a kornett in the 2nd dragoon guards or queen's bays in 1793. He was promoted lieutenant in March, and captain on 2 July 1794, in which year he accompanied his regiment to the Netherlands, where he served during the retreat from Holland, and in Westphalia after the return of the infantry to England, under the command of Major-general David Dundas. In 1795 he exchanged into the 29th dragoons in order to accompany Sir Ralph Abercromby to the West Indies, and served beneath him in San Domingo in 1796. In April 1797 he returned to England in command of the remnant of his regiment. In that year he exchanged into the 20th dragoons, and acted as aide-de-camp to Major-general the Earl of Pembroke, commanding at Plymouth until May 1799. In July 1799 he accompanied Major-general St. John to Jamaica as aide-de-camp, but returned in November of that ye
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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