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Rufane Shaw Donkin

GCH KCB FRS FRGS
Rufane Shaw Donkin
Born1772
Died1 May 1841 (aged 68-69)
AllegianceUnited Kingdom
Service/branchBritish Army
RankLieutenant-General
Battles/wars
  • French Revolutionary Wars
    • West Indies Campaign
    • Expedition to Ostend
  • Napoleonic Wars
    • Copenhagen Expedition
    • Peninsular War
      • Second Battle of Porto
      • Battle of Talavera
  • Third Anglo-Maratha War
AwardsKnight Grand Cross of the Royal Guelphic Order
Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath

Lieutenant-General Sir Rufane Shaw Donkin GCH KCB FRS FRGS (1772 – 1 May 1841), was a British Army officer of the Napoleonic era and later Member of Parliament.

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Sir Rufane Shaw Donkin GCH KCB FRS FRGS (1772 – 1 May 1841), was a British Army officer of the Napoleonic era and later Member of Parliament. Rufane Donkin...

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over Tokyo Bay in Japan. The Donkin Memorial was erected on a Xhosa reserve in 1820 by Cape Governor Sir Rufane Shaw Donkin in memory of his late wife Elizabeth...

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by Sir Rufane Donkin, who was the governor of the Cape at the time. He named it after his late wife, Elizabeth, who had died in India. The Donkin Memorial...

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Brigadier-General Sir Hay Frederick Donaldson Lieutenant-General Sir Rufane Shaw Donkin Brigadier John Patrick Simon Donnelly General John Hely-Hutchinson...

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Gore of the 61st regiment. Donkin's son, born in 1772, was named Rufane Shaw Donkin. Oettle 2009. Eagles 2018. Cannon 1839, p. 109. Yonge 1740, p. 36...

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List of places in South Africa named after people

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son of Queen Victoria Port Elizabeth – Elizabeth Donkin (wife of acting governor Sir Rufane Shaw Donkin) Queenstown – Queen Victoria Richmond, Eastern Cape...

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Africa. Voortrekkers set up a council in Potchefstroom 1 May - Sir Rufane Shaw Donkin, acting Governor of the Cape Colony who supervised the arrival and...

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British diaspora in Africa

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explorer Rob Davies (born 1948), South African Member of Parliament Rufane Shaw Donkin (1773–1841), founder of Port Elizabeth Tim Harris (born c. 1979),...

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St Pancras Old Church

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Arthur Richard Dillon, French archbishop (later re-interred in France) Rufane Shaw Donkin, military hero who committed suicide Chevalier d'Eon, spy and fencer...

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List of places named after people

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to its current form. Port Elizabeth – Elizabeth Donkin (wife of acting governor Sir Rufane Shaw Donkin) Pretoria – Andries Pretorius King Edward Point...

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Devonshire Regiment

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1823–1837: Gen Sir Henry Tucker Montresor KCB GCH 1837–1841: Gen Sir Rufane Shaw Donkin KCB GCH 1841–1856: Gen Sir John Wilson KCB 1856–1857: Lt-Gen William...

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Records of members of parliament of the United Kingdom

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years), Hartley Shawcross (1902–2003), Bert Hazell (1907–2009), Michael Shaw (1920–2021) and Sir Patrick Duffy (born 1920, and the only centenarian former...

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List of governors of British South African colonies

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1826 Lord Charles Somerset 13 January 1820 to 30 November 1821 Sir Rufane Shaw Donkin Acting for Somerset 5 March 1826 to 9 September 1828 Richard Bourke...

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Battle of Talavera order of battle

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2/31st Foot 733 119 131 1/45th Foot 756 25 158 2nd Brigade Colonel Rufane Shaw Donkin (1,471) 2/87th Foot 599 198 60 1/88th Foot 599 64 85 5/60th Rifle...

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Charles Richard Fox

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Ordnance 1832–1834 Succeeded by Lord Edward Somerset Preceded by Sir Rufane Shaw Donkin Surveyor-General of the Ordnance 1841 Succeeded by Jonathan Peel Preceded by...

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Parliamentary Select Committee on Aboriginal Tribes

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which had 16 members. Other members included Charles Lushington, Rufane Shaw Donkin, and William Ewart Gladstone (later prime minister). Buxton moved...

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Lord Robert Somerset

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Second Melbourne ministry

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Henry Hoppner Meyer

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Portrait of Sir Rufane Shaw Donkin, 19th century, by Meyer...

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List of knights grand cross of the Royal Guelphic Order

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Gazette. 12 May 1837. p. 1221. Burke's Peerage Dictionary of National Biography Shaw, William Arthur The Knights of England, p. 447-453, at Google Books...

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