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that their ancient religions were under attack with the sanction of the British-Indian regime, he continued, on his return to India in 1862, to enthusiastically urge the Government of India to publicly support the propagation of Christianity in India. Reputable biographers have gone so far as to call this attitude of his "a considerable lack of common sense",. He shared his strong evangelical Christian attitudes with his brother officer and close friend
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Edwardes was a devout Christian of the Protestant anti-ritualist variety. A contemporary point of contention on his career could be stated to be his propensity to evangelise amongst the indigenous populations of India. After the Indian Rebellion of 1857–8, caused in some measure by the sepoys' belief
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Whish and the Bombay column, whereupon, assisted by the further action of Edwardes's force, a siege was established. On 22 January 1849 Dewan Mulraj surrendered, following negotiations directed by Edwardes. Sir Henry Lawrence praised Edwardes's pivotal role in the war, stating that "Since the days of
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On 19 December 1853, a meeting was arranged under the Commissioner of Peshawar, Sir Herbert Edwardes, to discuss a Christian Mission to the city. The very first school in the province was established in 1853 by one of the first missionaries, Robert Clarke, under the patronage of Edwardes, today the
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from south of Multan, he defeated the rebels a second time at Sadusam, near Multan. Here he permanently injured his right hand in an accident with his pistol. Edwardes then forced the rebels to retreat to the fort of Multan, where they remained contained until the arrival of General William Sampson
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languages, passing exams in all 3 subjects, which qualified him for the position of interpreter, which he obtained in November 1845, aged 26. He developed a deep understanding of military, political and social affairs in India, which showed itself in his many literary contributions to the
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Irregulars and on 18 June 1848, having been joined by a force of Sikh troops, at Kineyri he routed a rebel force loyal to Dewan Mulraj. Subsequently, on 3 July, with reinforcements from his neighbouring District Officer Lieutenant Lake, and with troops sent by the Nawab of
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and the local Olympian Society's work but showed disagreement with the Greek influence of the name by publicly suggesting the games be called "'The Shropshire Class of British Work and Play', or anything else you will; but let it tell of English men and women."
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Edwardes believed that the security of British India against the designs of Russia would be improved on the North-Western Frontier by the existence of a strong and independent Afghanistan and he urged the signing of a British Treaty of Friendship with the Amir
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in March 1868 from which he temporarily recovered, upon which he was offered the post of Lieutenant-Governor of the Punjab in March 1868. His recovery however relapsed and he died in London on 23 December 1868, aged 49, after a severe haemorrhage.
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no man had done as Edwardes". All had been achieved by personal initiative, without formal military training. He was commended by Gough and the Government, promoted brevet major in September 1848 and made a Companion of the
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Aged 40, in mid-1859 Edwardes once more returned to England, his health so greatly impaired by the continual strain of arduous work that it was doubtful whether he could ever return to India. During his stay he was created
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Edwardes's mother died during his infancy, and from the age of four, following his father's death in 1823, he was brought up in the household of a deeply religious aunt, from whom he developed his own strongly
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in 1644/5.The baronetcy eventually became dormant on the death of the 10th Baronet Sir Henry Hope Edwardes to extant with Edwardes-Iddon which Edwardes are descended claiming succession to the title.
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region, Edwardes became the second/next Deputy Commissioner of this district and was responsible for formally naming the region's newly founded town after his predecessor. See Harold Lee,
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Indeed, it is said that the 'triumphant outcome of the Rebellion' further convinced him of the righteousness of his cause and that 'the Giver of Empires is indeed God'; Allen, p.340
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2 years later, thus allowing Punjab troops to be sent away to assist in the relief of Delhi and in subsequent operations. A second treaty was signed in January 1857.
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in Shropshire on 12 November 1819, the 2nd son of the Rev. Benjamin Edwardes (1790/1-1823), rector of Frodesley, a younger son of
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Sir Herbert Benjamin Edwardes by William Edward Kilburn. Carte-de-Visite, 1860s. National Portrait Gallery, London (NPG x45342)
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Sir Herbert Benjamin Edwardes by Alfred Crowquill, c.1850. Etching, National Portrait Gallery, London (NPG D36073)
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by pressure from his guardians, Edwardes determined himself on a career in India. He applied directly to
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In February 1847, aged 28, Edwardes was detached on special duty as Political Agent to the remote trans-
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Medal illustrated in Puddester, R.P. Medals of British India with Rarities and Valuations, vol.1
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on 10 February 1846. Following the British victory, the Punjab came to be ruled by a British
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One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the
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The events and disturbances which grew into the Second Anglo-Sikh War of 1848–49 started at
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Political Diaries of Lieut. H. B. Edwardes, Assistant to the Resident at Lahore 1847 – 1849
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Born out of Wenlock, William Penny Brookes and the British origins of the modern Olympics
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on 18 December 1845, where he was wounded, and at the final bloody rout of the Sikhs at
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He was survived by his wife, Emma (nee Sydney), whom he had married in 1850.
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of Shropshire had been conferred on his ancestor Sir Thomas Edwardes by King
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in 1846. Here he helped to suppress a local rebellion against the Maharaja,
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He rather saw himself as a 'pioneer of Christian civilisation', Allen, p.11
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He had been engaged for some time on writing a biography of his old chief
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Christian faith. At the age of ten, he was sent to a boarding school at
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Early in 1862, aged 43, with improved health he again returned to the
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and a stained glass window in the chapel of King's College London.
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Memorials of the Life and Letters of Sir Herbert Benjamin Edwardes
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On the outbreak of the Indian Rebellion of 1857 at far away
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British military personnel of the Indian Rebellion of 1857
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British Soldier and Statesman in Punjab region (1819–1868)
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Brothers in the Raj: The Lives of John and Henry Lawrence
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In fact, after Abbott was posted away in April 1853 from
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Soldier-Sahibs: The Men who made the North-West Frontier
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early in 1841, aged 22, and from July 1842 served as a
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Major Herbert Benjamin Edwardes, CB, DCL (1819–1868),
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Knights Commander of the Order of the Star of India
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