Early Victorian Portraits Catalogue

Sir Charles Hastings Doyle (1804-1883), Army officer and colonial administrator

General; son of lieutenant-general Sir Charles William Doyle (1770-1842); served in the East and West Indies and in Canada; colonel of his regiment, the 87th, 1854; went to the Crimea, but forced to return by ill-health; commanded in Nova Scotia, 1861; lieutenant-governor of the province, 1867-73; general, 1877.


This extended catalogue entry is from the out-of-print National Portrait Gallery collection catalogue: Richard Ormond, Early Victorian Portraits, Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1973, and is as published then. For the most up-to-date details on individual Collection works, we recommend reading the information provided in the Search the Collection results on this website in parallel with this text.