Edward Westby Donovan Explained

Edward Donovan
Birth Date:	6 September 1821
Death Date:	1897 (aged 76)
Allegiance:	United Kingdom
Branch:	British Army
Rank:	Lieutenant General
Commands:	Commander of British Troops in China, Hong Kong and the Straits Settlements
Battles:	Crimean War
Awards:	Knight of the Légion d'honneur

Lieutenant General Edward Westby Donovan KLH (6 September 1821 – 1897) was Commander of British Troops in China, Hong Kong and the Straits Settlements.

Military career

Donovan was commissioned into the 33rd Regiment of Foot in 1840. He fought in the Crimean War and was severely wounded at the Siege of Sevastopol in 1855. For this he was made a Chevalier (Knight) of the Légion d'honneur.^[1]

In 1878 he was appointed Commander of British Troops in China, Hong Kong and the Straits Settlements, a post he held until 1882. He retired in 1887 with the honorary rank of full general.

Following, he was made Colonel of the East Yorkshire Regiment (1891—1897).

Family

Edward Westby Donovan belonged to the distinguished Ballymore sept of the O'Donovans of Clanloughlin.^[2]

Notes and References

1. Thom, Adam Bissett, The Upper Ten Thousand, for 1877. London: Kelly and Co. p. 167
2. Burke, Bernard and Ashworth Peter Burke, A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry of Ireland. London: Harrison & Sons. 9th edition, 1899. p. 119–20