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DONKIN, SIR RUFANE SHAW, only son of Gen. Robert Donkin, and Mary, dau. of Rev. Emanuel Collins; b. Sep 1772; adm. 8 Apr 1782; left 1787; Ensign, 44th Foot 21 Mar 1778; Lieut., 9 Sep 1779; Capt., 31 May 1793; Maj., 1 Sep 1795; Lieut. -Col., 11th Foot 24 May 1798; on staff Quartermaster-General’s Dept., May 1805; Brevet Col., 24 Apr 1808; Maj. -Gen., 4 Jun 1811; Lieut. -Gen., 19 Jul 1821; Col. 80th Foot 20 Apr 1825, 11th Foot 15 Mar 1837; Gen., 25 Jun 1838; served in West Indies 1794, 1796 (invalided home from Martinique), on expedition to Ostend 1798 (wounded, prisoner), and as Assistant QMG at Copenhagen 1807; Assistant QMG, Portugal 1808-9; as Col. on the Staff commanded a brigade in operations on the Douro and at the battle of Talavera; QMG Sicily 1810-3; commanded second field division in Mahratta War 1817-8; KCB 14 Oct 1818; invalided to Cape of Good Hope, where he acted as Governor in Lord Charles Somerset’s absence 1820-1; GCH 1825; MP (Whig) Berwick on Tweed 1832-7, Sandwich from Feb 1839; Surveyor-Gen. of the Ordnance from 25 Apr 1835; FRS 23 Feb 1826; one of the original Fellows of the Royal Geographical Society; author, A Dissertation on the Course and probable Termination of the River Niger, 1829, and a contributor to various periodicals; m. 1st, 30 Aug 1815 Elizabeth Frances, eldest dau. of George Markham (adm. 1769, qv); m. 2nd, 5 May 1832 Lady Anna Maria Elliot, dau. of Gilbert Elliot, 1st Earl of Minto PC; committed suicide 1 May 1841. DNB.
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Users should note that the information recorded here that is not to be found in the first two volumes of the Record of Old Westminsters and its first Supplement has been assembled from various published and manuscript sources by Hugh Edmund Pagan MA FSA, and all new resulting text is his copyright, © 2014.
The Record of Old Westminsters: A biographical list of all those who are known to have been educated at Westminster School from the earliest times to 1927, Volumes 1 & 2, compiled by G. F. Russell Barker and Alan H. Stenning, London, 1928.