Henry Mortimer Durand

Sir Henry Mortimer Durand (painting by W. Thomas Smith)

Sir Henry Mortimer Durand as ambassador to Washington 1903-06

Sir Henry Mortimer Durand (born February 14, 1850 in Sehore , Bhopal , India ; † June 8, 1924 in Polden , Somerset , England ) was Foreign Minister of the British colony of India and in 1893 laid the border between Afghanistan and India, known as the Durand Line today's Pakistan (then British India ).

Life

Henry Mortimer Durand was the second son of Sir Henry Marion Durand and was educated in England at Blackheath Proprietary School and Tonbridge School. In 1870 he entered the civil service of the Indian government . During the Second Anglo-Afghan War (1878-80) he was political secretary to General Sir Frederick Sleigh Roberts in Kabul. Durand was Foreign Minister of the Government of India from 1884-1894 and came again in 1893 to Kabul . Now he was negotiating the northern and eastern borders of Afghanistan . He then became ambassador to Persia and from 1900 to Madrid. From 1903 to 1906 he was ambassador to Washington.

Durand died in Quetta , Sultanate of Baluchistan , British India in 1924 . He was buried in Durand Street, Lahore .

Works (selection

• The life of Major-General Sir Henry Marion Durand of the Royal Engineers . Vol I. Publisher: WH Allen London 1883
• The life of Major-General Sir Henry Marion Durand of the Royal Engineers . Volume II. Publisher: WH Allen London 1883
• Helen Treveryan; or The ruling race. Publisher: Macmillan and co. New York, London, 1892
• Nadir Shah Publisher: Archibald Constable & Co., London, 1908
• Life of the Right Hon. Sir Alfred Comyn Lyall, PC, KCB, GCIE, DCL, LL. D. Publisher: W. Blackwood, Edinburgh and London 1913
• The life of Field Marshal Sir George White, VCGCB, GCSI, GCMG, GCVO, GCIE, OM, DCL, LL.D. Volume I. With illustrations and maps. W. Blackwood, Edinburgh and London 1915
• The life of Field Marshal Sir George White, VCGCB, GCSI, GCMG, GCVO, GCIE, OM, DCL, LL.D. Volume II. With illustrations and maps. W. Blackwood, Edinburgh and London 1915
• The Thirteenth hussars in the great war . Publisher: W. Blackwood and sons Edinburgh, London, 1921
• From his father Major General Henry Marion Durand: The First Afghan War and Its Causes . Publisher Longmans, Green, and co., London 1879 - published posthumously

See also

• Durand Cup

Web links

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Individual evidence

1. ^ Forty-one years in India by Earl Frederick Sleigh Roberts Roberts. 1st edition in one volume. Publisher: Richard Bentley & Sons, London 1898 - a Project Gutenberg e-book
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