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 Major-General Sir Henry Marion Durand, (6 November 1812 – 1 January 1871) was a British military officer in the Bengal Army and served as Lieutenant Governor of Punjab from 1870 until his death in 1871. Early life Durand was one of two ille ...

and younger brother of

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, 1st Baronet Durand, and

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.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 The Second Anglo-Afghan War (Dari: جنگ دوم افغان و انگلیس, ) was a military conflict fought between the British Raj and the Emirate of Afghanistan from 1878 to 1880, when the latter was ruled by Sher Ali Khan of the Barakzai dy ...

(1878–1880) at the Battle of Kandahar on 1 September 1880. He served as the district agent at Gilgit (1889–1894). In 1891, as a colonel, he commanded the successful

Hunza–Nagar campaign The Hunza-Nagar Campaign was an armed conflict in 1891 fought by troops serving the British Raj against the princely states of Hunza and Nagar in the Gilgit Agency (now part of the Gilgit-Baltistan region in Pakistan). It is also known in Pak ...

, 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 The governor-general of India (1833 to 1950, from 1858 to 1947 the viceroy and governor-general of India, commonly shortened to viceroy of India) was the representative of the monarch of the United Kingdom in their capacity as the Emperor of ...

(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

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A. Durand, ''The Making of a Frontier'', 1899
– The Tertullian Project
Algernon George Arnold Durand
– National Portrait Gallery {{DEFAULTSORT:Durand, Alegrnon 1854 births 1923 deaths British military personnel of the Second Anglo-Afghan War History of Gilgit Agency

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