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Authorised form of nameDirom; Alexander (- 1830)
Dates - 1830
Place of deathMount Annan, Dumfrieshire
Date of death06 October 1830
OccupationSoldier
ActivityCareer:
Lieutenant, 88th Foot (by 1779); Deputy Adjutant General in the second Mysroe was (1790; war ended 1792); Major General (1809); Lieutenant General (1813); Brigadier General in command of forces of the North West of England; friend of Thomas Telford (FRS 1827), with whom he surveyed the Dee for the siting of new bridges
Memberships:
FRSE; Edinburgh Wernerian Society
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election10/07/1794
RelationshipsSon of Alexander Dirom of Muiresk, Banffshire, and his wife Ann Fotheringham; married (1793) Magdalen Pasley, duaghter of Robert Pasley of Craig and Christina Pringle of Whytebank and Yair
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB
Authority:
Death place from DNB
CodeNA3043
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNoTitleDate
EC/1794/12Dirom, Alexander: certificate of election to the Royal Society
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