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William Dorrington
Dodington Hall, Somerset, ancestral home of the Dodington or Dorrington family; heraldic evidence suggests William Dorrington was a member[1]
Born
c.1644 England
Died
11 December 1718[2] Paris, France
Allegiance
England Ireland France
Service/branch
Infantry
Years of service
c.1675-1718
Rank
Lieutenant General
Unit
Royal Irish Regiment of Foot Guards
Battles/wars
Williamite War in Ireland:
Battle of the Boyne
Battle of Aughrim
War of the Spanish Succession:
Battle of Blenheim
Battle of Ramillies
Battle of Malplaquet
William Dorrington (c. 1644–1718) was an English army officer. Contemporary sources often spell his surname as "Dorington", or "Dodington".
A Roman Catholic in a period when Catholics often faced restrictions on military service in England, he is best known for his service in the Jacobite cause of James II. Particularly associated with the Royal Irish Regiment of Foot Guards, he rose to the rank of Major General in James's Irish Army, fighting in the Williamite War.
Known as a capable soldier, in his later career he held a senior rank in the French army and received the Earldom of Macclesfield in the Jacobite Peerage. His regiment of Foot Guards later became the Regiment Roth of the Irish Brigade.
^Gourdon de Genouillac (1860) Recueil des maisons nobles de France par H. Gourdon de Genouillac, Dentu, p.166
^Le Nouveau Mercure, December 1718, p.150
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