Son of General Robert Donkin was educated at Westminster and entered the Army in 1778. Lieutenant, 1779:
Captain, 1793.
He served in the West Indies, Copenhagen, Sicily and the Peninsula, and, as Major General in 1811, went out in 1815 to Madras and Bengal, where he commanded a Division in the Mahratta war of 1817-8, with skill.
KCB, 1818
Acted as Governor of the Cape of Good Hope. He named the port of Algoa Bay, Port Elizabeth in memory of the death of his wife.
GCH, FRS, FRGS was MP for Berwick and for Sandwich. Surveyor of the Ordnance
General, 1838.
He committed suicide at his home in Portland Street, Southampton in 1841. Buried with an urn containing the heart of his first wife, who died in Upper India in 1818, aged 28 years
Captain, 1793.
He served in the West Indies, Copenhagen, Sicily and the Peninsula, and, as Major General in 1811, went out in 1815 to Madras and Bengal, where he commanded a Division in the Mahratta war of 1817-8, with skill.
KCB, 1818
Acted as Governor of the Cape of Good Hope. He named the port of Algoa Bay, Port Elizabeth in memory of the death of his wife.
GCH, FRS, FRGS was MP for Berwick and for Sandwich. Surveyor of the Ordnance
General, 1838.
He committed suicide at his home in Portland Street, Southampton in 1841. Buried with an urn containing the heart of his first wife, who died in Upper India in 1818, aged 28 years
Son of General Robert Donkin was educated at Westminster and entered the Army in 1778. Lieutenant, 1779:
Captain, 1793.
He served in the West Indies, Copenhagen, Sicily and the Peninsula, and, as Major General in 1811, went out in 1815 to Madras and Bengal, where he commanded a Division in the Mahratta war of 1817-8, with skill.
KCB, 1818
Acted as Governor of the Cape of Good Hope. He named the port of Algoa Bay, Port Elizabeth in memory of the death of his wife.
GCH, FRS, FRGS was MP for Berwick and for Sandwich. Surveyor of the Ordnance
General, 1838.
He committed suicide at his home in Portland Street, Southampton in 1841. Buried with an urn containing the heart of his first wife, who died in Upper India in 1818, aged 28 years
Captain, 1793.
He served in the West Indies, Copenhagen, Sicily and the Peninsula, and, as Major General in 1811, went out in 1815 to Madras and Bengal, where he commanded a Division in the Mahratta war of 1817-8, with skill.
KCB, 1818
Acted as Governor of the Cape of Good Hope. He named the port of Algoa Bay, Port Elizabeth in memory of the death of his wife.
GCH, FRS, FRGS was MP for Berwick and for Sandwich. Surveyor of the Ordnance
General, 1838.
He committed suicide at his home in Portland Street, Southampton in 1841. Buried with an urn containing the heart of his first wife, who died in Upper India in 1818, aged 28 years
Inscription
Burdett Coutts Memorial
Gravesite Details
He is listed as one of the important graves lost on Baroness Burdett Coutts Memorial in Old St. Pancras Churchyard
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