Algernon George Arnold Durand, CB, CIE (31 March 1854 – 8 October 1923) was a British soldier.
He was the third son of General Henry Marion Durand and younger brother of Edward, 1st Baronet Durand, and Mortimer.T. H. H., "Obituary: Algernon Durand", Journal of The Royal Central Asian Society 11.1 (1924): 114.
He fought in the Second Anglo-Afghan War (1878–1880) at the Battle of Kandahar on 1 September 1880.G. A. Raikes, Roll of the Officers of the York and Lancaster Regiment (London, 1885), p. 64. He served as the district agent at Gilgit (1889–1894). In 1891, as a colonel, he commanded the successful Hunza–Nagar campaign, in which he was wounded. He wrote an account of the campaign, The Making of a Frontier, published in 1899. He was the military secretary to Lord Elgin, Viceroy of India (1894–1899), whose niece, Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Charles Bruce, he married. He served at court as a Gentlemen at Arms. He was one of the founding members of the Central Asian Society in 1901.Ivor Lucas (2002), "The Foundation of the Central Asian Society, 1901", Asian Affairs 33.1 (2002): 25–27
References
Further reading Anderson, Dorothy. "The Friends at Gilgit, 1888–95: Algernon Durand and George Scott Robertson". Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research 83.333 (2005): 43–62.
External links A. Durand, The Making of a Frontier, 1899 – The Tertullian Project Algernon George Arnold Durand – National Portrait Gallery