Person Dirom; Alexander (- 1830) Dirom Alexander - 1830 Male Mount Annan, Dumfrieshire 06 October 1830 1830

Soldier Career: 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 Son 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 Fellow 10/07/1794 Sources: Bulloch's Roll; DNB Authority: Death place from DNB International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) - Ottawa 1996 ISBN 0-9696035-3-3 National Council on Archives, Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997 - 6 Oct 1830 NA3043 21/11/2001 Andyg Pmab 28/03/2023 RS_NET\JonathanB Yes 52a68029-fe6a-478b-8741-8aaf0f79a6af