William Dorrington

For the British businessman, see William E. Dorrington.

William Dorrington
Dodington Hall, Somerset, ancestral home of the Dodington or Dorrington family; heraldic evidence suggests William Dorrington was a member[1]
Bornc.1644
England
Died11 December 1718[2]
Paris, France
Allegiance England
Ireland
 France
Service / branchInfantry
Years of servicec.1675-1718
RankLieutenant General
UnitRoyal Irish Regiment of Foot Guards
Battles / warsWilliamite War in Ireland:

War of the Spanish Succession:

William Dorrington (c. 1644–1718) was an English army officer. Contemporary sources often spell his surname as "Dorington", or "Dodington".

A Roman Catholic in a period when Catholics often faced restrictions on military service in England, he is best known for his service in the Jacobite cause of James II. Particularly associated with the Royal Irish Regiment of Foot Guards, he rose to the rank of Major General in James's Irish Army, fighting in the Williamite War.

Known as a capable soldier, in his later career he held a senior rank in the French army and received the Earldom of Macclesfield in the Jacobite Peerage. His regiment of Foot Guards later became the Regiment Roth of the Irish Brigade.

  1. ^ Gourdon de Genouillac (1860) Recueil des maisons nobles de France par H. Gourdon de Genouillac, Dentu, p.166
  2. ^ Le Nouveau Mercure, December 1718, p.150