| 词条 | Edward Westby Donovan |
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| name =Edward Donovan | image = | caption = | birth_date =6 September 1821 | death_date =1897 (aged 76) | placeofburial_label = | placeofburial = | birth_place = | death_place = | placeofburial_coordinates = | nickname = | allegiance ={{flagicon|United Kingdom}} United Kingdom | branch = British Army | serviceyears = | rank =Lieutenant General | unit = | commands =Commander of British Troops in China, Hong Kong and the Straits Settlements | battles =Crimean War | awards = Knight of the Légion d'honneur | relations = | laterwork = }} Lieutenant General Edward Westby Donovan (6 September 1821 - 1897) was Commander of British Troops in China, Hong Kong and the Straits Settlements. Military careerDonovan was commissioned into the 33rd Regiment of Foot in 1840.[1] He fought in the Crimean War and was severely wounded at the Siege of Sevastopol in 1855.[2] For this he was made a Chevalier (Knight) of the Légion d'honneur.[3] In 1878 he was appointed Commander of British Troops in China, Hong Kong and the Straits Settlements, a post he held until 1882.[4] He retired in 1887.[5] He was also Colonel of the East Yorkshire Regiment.[6] FamilyEdward Westby Donovan belonged to the distinguished Ballymore sept of the O'Donovans of Clan Loughlin,[7] and was a cousin of the 18th century Juliana Donovan, Countess of Anglesey. References1. ^{{London Gazette|issue=19812|page=57|date=10 January 1840}} {{s-start}}{{s-mil}}{{succession box | before=Sir Francis Colborne | title=Commander of British Troops in China, Hong Kong2. ^{{London Gazette|issue=21705|page=1707|date=15 April 1855}} 3. ^Thom, Adam Bissett, [https://books.google.com/books?id=atYNAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA167 The Upper Ten Thousand, for 1877]. London: Kelly and Co. p. 167 4. ^{{London Gazette|issue=25068|page=425|date=3 February 1882}} 5. ^{{London Gazette|issue=25688|page=1916|date=1 April 1887}} 6. ^{{London Gazette|issue=26182|page=3722|date=14 July 1891}} 7. ^Burke, Bernard and Ashworth Peter Burke, [https://books.google.com/books?id=Ha0EAAAAIAAJ A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry of Ireland]. London: Harrison & Sons. 9th edition, 1899. p. 119–20 and the Straits Settlements | years=1878–1882 | after=John Sargent}}{{s-bef | before=Robert Bruce }}{{s-ttl | title=Colonel of The East Yorkshire Regiment | years=1891–1897}}{{s-aft | after=William Hardy }}{{end}}{{authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Donovan, Edward Westby}} 11 : 1821 births|1897 deaths|Duke of Wellington's Regiment officers|British Army generals|East Yorkshire Regiment officers|O'Donovan family|Chevaliers of the Légion d'honneur|Recipients of the Order of the Medjidie|British Army personnel of the Crimean War|33rd Regiment of Foot officers|Irish officers in the British Army |
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