Henry Montgomery Lawrence
Sir Henry Montgomery Lawrence (born June 28, 1806 in Matara , Ceylon , † July 4, 1857 in Lucknow ) was a British general .
Life
Henry Montgomery was the son of Colonel Alexander Lawrence and attended Foyle College in Derry. He then moved to Green College in Bristol and studied from August 1820 on the military college at Addiscombe in England .
On May 10, 1822, he joined the Bengali artillery . On February 21, 1823 he reached his post in Dum Dum . Lawrence took part with his battery in the First Anglo-Burmese War , where he took part in the conquest of Arakans and fell ill with dysentery . This was followed by a stay in England and various military assignments in India, during which he devoted himself to the study of the native languages. On September 12, 1832, he was awarded the language qualification.
In 1833 he became assistant revenue surveyor for the Northwest Province . On June 2, 1835 he was promoted to full surveyor . On January 14, 1839, he became George Clerk's assistant and took over the civil administration of Ferozepore .
On March 31, 1840, Lawrence was assistant to the Commissioner for the Punjab and the Northwest Frontier and took part in a punitive expedition to Kabul . He commanded the Sikh contingent at Tezeen and Haft Khotal and was with George Pollock when he reached Kabul on September 16, 1842 . On December 1, 1843, Lawrence became resident in Kathmandu . In the First Sikh War he was appointed commissioner for the Panjab and the Northwest Frontier and was present at the Battle of Sobraon and the occupation of Lahore . On January 8, 1847, he became a resident in Lahore. On home leave he was appointed Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath on April 28, 1848 . During the Second Sikh War he took part in the Siege of Multan and the Battle of Chillianwala .
In 1849 he became head of the Panjab Administrative Commission . Lawrence opposed the annexation of the Panjab and clashed with Governor General James Andrew Broun-Ramsay, 1st Marquess of Dalhousie , over the matter . In 1852 as a political agent for Rajputana , he was appointed colonel and adjutant to the queen on June 19, 1854. Lawrence received the administration of Oudh in March 1857 and died as a brigadier general on July 4, 1857 while defending Lucknow in the defense of Lucknow from a shrapnel wound on the left thigh during the Indian Uprising of 1857 .
His eldest son, Alexander Hutchinson, one of the three children who survived Lawrence, was made a baronet for his father's merits .
According to him were, among others, Henry Lawrence Iceland in the Indian Ocean and the city of Lawrence in New Zealand named.
Works
- Some Passages in the Life of an Adventurer in the Punjab
- Adventures of an officer in the service of Runjeet Singh
- Essays Military and Political
- Essays on the Indian Army and Oude
literature
- Edwardes, Merivale: Life of Sir Henry Lawrence . 3. Edition. London 1873.
- Lawrence, Sir Henry Montgomery . In: Encyclopædia Britannica . 11th edition. tape 16 : L - Lord Advocate . London 1911, p. 305 (English, full text [ Wikisource ]).
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| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Lawrence, Henry Montgomery |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British general |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 28, 1806 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Matara , Ceylon |
| DATE OF DEATH | 4th July 1857 |
| Place of death | Lucknow |