William Dorrington was an English army officer. Contemporary sources often spell his surname as "Dorington", or "Dodington".
Dodington Hall, Somerset, ancestral home of the Dodington or Dorrington family; heraldic evidence suggests William Dorrington was a member
The Williamite War in Ireland took place from March 1689 to October 1691. Fought between Jacobite supporters of James II and those of his successor, William III, it resulted in a Williamite victory. I
William Dorrington
…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…
Battle of the Boyne by Jan van Huchtenburg
Schomberg (1615–1690), Williamite commander in Ireland; immensely experienced, he was a Marshal of France, England and Portugal.
French envoy d'Avaux, whose relationship with the Irish was one of mutual mistrust and dislike
The Boyne; a narrow Williamite victory, in which Schomberg was killed (bottom right)