Who is benjamin durban

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Login to find your connection. Benjamin D'Urban - Born 5 Jan in Halesworth, Suffolk, England. Husband of Anna Wilcocks — married [date unknown] [location unknown]. Died 25 May in Montreal, Canada East. Profile manager : Mike Davies [ send private message ]. Profile last modified 27 Apr Created 23 Aug Sponsored Search. Is Benjamin your ancestor? Please don't go away! Login to collaborate or comment , or contact the profile manager, or ask our community of genealogists a question.

Sponsored Search by Ancestry. Search Records. DNA Connections It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Benjamin by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. He served throughout the Peninsular War without once going on leave and took part in nine pitched battles and sieges, Busaco, Albuera, Badajoz, Salamanca, Vittoria, the Pyrenees, the Nivelle, the Nive and Toulouse. He was promoted major-general in the Portuguese army and colonel in the British army in , and made a K.

He remained in Portugal until , when he was summoned home to take up the posts of colonel of the royal staff corps and deputy quartermaster-general at the Horse Guards. In he became major-general and in lieutenant-general. From he was colonel of the 51st Foot.

Sir Benjamin began his career as colonial administrator in when he was made governor of Antigua. In he was transferred to Demerara and Essequibo, then in a disturbed condition owing to a rising among the slaves consequent on the emancipation movement in Great Britain. Several important and possibly contributory aspects to a fuller understanding of D'Urban's Cape interlude - notably his ten years in various executive positions in the West Indies and British Guiana, and his period as commander-in-chief of the British army in Canada - were beyond the reach of anything more than a cursory review.

Presumably there are documents relative to this period of D'Urban's life in the Archives in Montreal, Georgetown and London. D'Urban's reputation in South Africa continues to rest upon the short-lived system he established in and the great promise for future relations between black and white that many authors then and since saw in it, or alternately failed to see in it.

With this in mind, and the realisation that years and a succession of Governors, High Commissioners and Prime Ministers have passed since , the following extract from the front page of The Daily Dispatch of 10 May, , is revealing. It is famous as the busiest port in Africa, The harbour is ranked in the top 10 in the world in terms of size and volume.

Settled by the British, a large Indian community now the largest outside of India was imported to work on the sugar cane fields. Durban was also once a home to Mahatma Gandhi, who lived at the Phoenix Settlement from to