Sir Henry Marion Durand also served as the Commissioner of Tenasserim from the year 1844 to 1846. Eventually he was appointed as the Political Agent of the princely state of Gwalior, as one of the foremost Residents of British India. He served in the position from 1849 to 1852. Durand also became the Acting Resident of Baroda from March 1852 to March 1854. During the Sepoy Mutiny of 1857, also known as the Great Revolt of 1857, he acted as a military commander in western Malwa. Henry Marion Durand was finally appointed as the Lieutenant Governor of British Punjab. He served in office from 1 June 1870 to 1 January 1871. Sir Henry Mortimer Durand, his son, served in the British Indian Civil Service and later in the British diplomatic service. Henry Marion Durand died on 31 December 1871. He was killed by Abdul Ur Rahim while passing on an elephant under a gateway in the city of Tonk (now in Pakistan). He was buried in a Church in Dera Ismail Khan in Khyber Pukhtunkhwa, Pakistan. This article is a stub. You may enrich it by adding more information to it. You can send your write-up at content@indianetzone.com |