Major General Elias Walker Durnford R.E (28 July 1774 – 8 March 1850) was the builder of the Citadel, Quebec City. Durnford was born in 1774 in

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. He was commissioned as a

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in the Corps of Royal Engineers on 24 April 1793. Durnford married Jane Sophia Mann on 30 October 1798. On 10 January 1837 he removed from the Corps, on being promoted to the rank of

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. Major General Elias Walker Durnford R.E. died in 1850 in Clarence Villa,

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, at the age of 75.

External links

Biography at ''the Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online''

1774 births 1850 deaths People from Lowestoft Royal Engineers officers British Army major generals Graduates of the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich British Army personnel of the French Revolutionary Wars {{Canada-mil-bio-stub