306 Notes on Newton Don. By C. B. Balfour. 



When war broke out again with France, he was summoned to 

 London to organise and command the King's German Legion. 

 With this corps and other troops, amounting in all to 14,000 men, 

 he sailed for Germany, where he served under Lord Cathcart, 

 and on the return of the army in 1806 was appointed Lieutenant 

 Governor of Jersey. The year before, in 1805, he had been 

 given the Colonelcy of the 96th regiment. He was Lieut. 

 Governor of Jersey from 1806-1814, when, on the 4th June he was 

 promoted General. He kept the island in a good state of 

 defence, and especially signalised his administration by carrying 

 out an admirable system of roads throughout the island. It 

 was during his tenure of office that the Walcheren expedition of 

 1809 took place, and in this he also bore a part. 



On 25th August 1814, he was made Governor of Gibraltar, 

 but as the Duke of Kent was never, and his successor Lord 

 Chatham as first in command was seldom there, he was prac- 

 tically in supreme command from that date till his death in 1832. 



He is frequently mentioned in travellers' journals, one of whom 

 says that his name always puzzled the Spaniards, who asked 

 " Don what ? '"*'• 



He was equerry to the Duke of Cambridge — Colonel of the 36th 

 regiment, 1818— G.C.B. 1820— G.C.H. 1823— G.C.M.G. 1825 — 

 Col. of the 3rd Buffs 1829— Governor of Scarborough Castle 

 1831. He married a daughter of Gen. the Hon. James Murray) 

 5th son of the 4th Lord Elibank.^* 



He died Ist Jan. 1832, and was buried with full military 

 honours in the garrison church at Gibraltar, where a monument 

 is erected to his memory. 



Sir Alexander Don, 5th Bart., born 1751, married 1778 Lady 

 Harriet Cunningham, daughter and eventual heiress of the 

 13th Earl of Glencairn ; her brothers, who succeeded as 14th 

 and 15th Earls, dying without issue. 



Sir Alexander, before his father's death in 1773, was active 

 in securing the site for the Episcopal Church in Kelso, on 

 which it now stands — and he, his son, and grandson, were 

 hereditary trustees of the property, which was feued from 

 the Duke of Roxburghe. Lady Henrietta is described in Sir 

 Walter Scott's Journal — "Lady Dowager Don's prize in a 



" Life of George Ticknor, Vol. i., p. 195. 



** Coat of Arms on engraving of Gen. Don, in possession of Mrs Sandars. 



