4-602: Lieutenant-General Hay MacDowall ( c. 1752 – c. 16 March 1809) was a Scottish officer in the British Army who was the sixth General Officer Commanding, Ceylon . He was appointed on 19 July 1799. He was succeeded by David Douglas Wemyss . Fort MacDowall in Matale was named due to his involvement during Kandyan Wars . Only the remnants of gateway and portion of the ramparts are exist today. MacDowall hailed from Garthland Mains, Dumfries and Galloway , Scotland, where
8-614: A Major-General, he was appointed Colonel commandant of a Battalion of the 40th Regiment of Foot in place of Lord Hutchinson . He was appointed Commander-in-Chief of the Madras Army in 1807. He was made Colonel of the 41st Regiment of Foot in 1808. Following a period of dispute with the civil government of Madras over his exclusion from its council, and the affair of the arrest of Quartermaster-General John Munro , he resigned his commission in January 1809 and took ship for England on
12-473: The family seat was Garthland Castle . He was the fourth son of William MacDowell (c.1719–84), M.P. for Renfrewshire , and Elizabeth Graham, granddaughter of Alexander Livingstone, 3rd Earl of Callendar. His brothers William MacDowall (c.1749–1810) and Captain David McDowall-Grant (1761–1841) were Members of Parliament. His nephew was Lt. Gen. Day Hort MacDowall (1795–1870) and great-nephew
16-725: Was Canadian politician Day Hort MacDowall (1850–1927). In August 1782, he was the commanding officer of the fort of Trincomalee when the French lay siege to it in the run-up to the Battle of Trincomalee . He surrendered to Suffren on 30 August in exchange for safe passage to Madras for his 1,000-man garrison. MacDowall was appointed Lieutenant-Colonel of the 57th Regiment of Foot in 1791 and served in Flanders in 1793 and later as commander-in-chief in Ceylon from 1798 to 1804. In 1802, as
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