Guyon, RICHARD DEBAUFRE

Guyon, RICHARD DEBAUFRE, a general in the Hungarian revolutionary war, was born at Walcot, near Bath, 31st March 1813. His father, a commander in the English navy, was the descendant of a Huguenot family that settled in England after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes. Guyon entered the Austrian service in 1831; and married the daughter of a Hungarian baron and field-marshal in 1838. From that time till the outbreak of the revolution, Guyon led the life of a country gentleman on his estates near Komorn, but was one among the first to offer his services to the national government, and acted a prominent part in the struggle for independence. During the retreat of Görgéi's army, Guyon carried the mountain-pass of Branyiszko, and by that daring feat re-established the communication with the government at Debreczin, as also with the several other Hungarian army corps. He did brilliant service at Kapolya, Komorn, and elsewhere; and after the end of the war escaped to Turkey, and entered the service of the sultan, without being obliged to turn Mohammedan. Under the name of Kourshid Pasha, he, as a general of division, was governor of Damascus, and at the beginning of the Crimean war did much to organise the army of Kars. He died at Constantinople, 12th October 1856. See A. Kinglake, General Guyon (1856).