Patrick Leonard MacDougall
| Sir Patrick Leonard MacDougall | |
|---|---|
 Sir Patrick Leonard MacDougall | |
| Born |
10 August 1819 Boulogne-sur-Mer, France |
| Died |
28 November 1894 (aged 75) Kingston Hill, London |
| Allegiance |
 United Kingdom |
| Service/branch |
 British Army |
| Rank | General |
| Commands held | The British Troops in Canada |
| Awards | Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George |
| Other work | Commandant, author |
General Sir Patrick Leonard MacDougall, KCMG (10 August 1819 – 28 November 1894) was a British Army officer who became Commander of the British Troops in Canada.
Military career
MacDougall was born the only son of Lieutenant Colonel Sir Duncan MacDougall (1787–1862) and Anne, daughter of Colonel Cornelius Smelt (1748–1832), Lieutenant Governor of the Isle of Man.[1] Educated at a military academy in Edinburgh, then the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, he was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the 79th Regiment of Foot, (Cameronian Highlanders) in 1836.[1] He then served in the 36th (Herefordshire) Regiment of Foot and transferred to The Royal Canadian Rifle Regiment in 1844.[1] He was promoted to major and became Superintendent of Studies at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst in March 1854 and then served in the Crimean War later that year.[1] At its formation, he was appointed commandant of the Staff College.[1] He became adjutant general of the Canadian militia in May 1865 and head of reserve forces in England in 1871.[1] He became Commander of the British Troops in Canada in 1878.[1] Three times, in 1878, 1881 to 1882, and 1882 to 1883, he was the administrator of the government of Canada in the absence of the Governor General of Canada.[1]
He is the author of several military works: The Theory of War (1856), Campaigns of Hannibal (1858),[2] Modern Warfare as influenced by Modern Artillery (1864), The army and its reserves (1869), and Modern infantry tactics (1873).
He died in 1894 at Kingson Hill, London having lived with his second wife at 22 Elvaston Place, London and Melbury Lodge, Kingston Hill, Surrey. He is buried at East Putney Cemetery.[3]
Family
MacDougall married, firstly, Louisa Augusta Napier[1] (third daughter of Sir William Francis Patrick Napier and Caroline Ameila Fox) on 15 July 1844 in Guernsey and following her death on 8 September 1856, he married Marianne Adelaide Miles[1] (born 1834), eighth daughter of Philip John Miles and Clarissa Peach at St George's Hanover Square on 21 June 1860. Marianne was described as "a charming woman and a well-known amateur water-colour artist" by Lady Glover who stayed with them in Canada. There were no children by either marriage. His first wife's sister Pamela married Philip William Skinner Miles, a son of Philip John Miles.
Awards
He was awarded the medal and clasp for Sebastopol and the Turkish medal. He was appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George in 1877.[1]
References
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 "Sir Patrick Leonard MacDougall". Dictionary of Canadian Biography. Retrieved 30 August 2015.
- ↑ Patrick Leonard MacDougall (1858). The Campaigns of Hannibal: Arranged and critically considered expressly for the use of students of military history. London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, & Roberts. p. 195.
- ↑ "MacDougall, Patrick Leonard". Dictionary of National Biography, 1901 supplement.
External links
- The Colonial Office List By Great Britain Colonial Office
- "Memories of Four Continents" by Lady Glover, 1923
| Military offices | ||
|---|---|---|
| Preceded by Sir William Haly |
Commander of the British Troops in Canada 1878–1883 |
Succeeded by Lord Alexander Russell |