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See also:- LAWRENCE
- LAWRENCE (LAURENTIUS, LORENZO), ST
- LAWRENCE, AMOS (1786—1852)
- LAWRENCE, AMOS ADAMS (1814–1886)
- LAWRENCE, GEORGE ALFRED (1827–1876)
- LAWRENCE, JOHN LAIRD MAIR LAWRENCE, 1ST BARON (1811-1879)
- LAWRENCE, SIR HENRY MONTGOMERY (1806–1857)
- LAWRENCE, SIR THOMAS (1769–1830)
- LAWRENCE, STRINGER (1697–1775)
LAWRENCE, See also:SIR See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
HENRY See also:MONTGOMERY (1806–1857) , See also:British soldier and statesman in See also:India, See also:brother of the 1st See also:Lord Lawrence (q.v.), was See also:born at Matara, See also:Ceylon, on the 28th of See also:June 18o6. He inherited his See also:father's stern devotion to See also:duty and See also:Celtic impulsiveness, tempered by his See also:mother's gentleness and See also:power of organization. See also:Early in 1823 he joined the See also:Bengal See also:Artillery at the See also:Calcutta suburb of Dum Dum, where also Henry See also:Havelock was stationed about the same See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time. The two See also:officers pursued a very similar career, and See also:developed the same Puritan See also:character up to the time that both died at See also:Lucknow in 1857. In the first Burmese See also:War Henry Lawrence and his See also:battery formed See also:part of the See also:Chittagong See also:column which See also:General See also:Morrison led over the See also:jungle-covered hills of See also:Arakan, till See also:fever decimated the officers and men, and Lawrence found himself at See also:home again, wasted by a disease which never See also:left him. On his return to India with his younger brother See also:John in 1829 he was appointed See also:revenue surveyor by Lord See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William See also:Bentinck. At See also:Gorakhpur the wonderful See also:personal See also:influence which radiated from the See also:young officer formed a school of attached See also:friends and subordinates who were always eager to serve under him. After some years spent in See also:camp, during which he had married his See also:cousin Honoria See also:Marshall, and had surveyed every See also:village in four districts, each larger than See also:Yorkshire, he was recalled to a See also:brigade by the outbreak of the first Afghan War towards the See also:close of 1838. As assistant to Sir See also:George Clerk, he now added to his knowledge of the See also:people See also:political experience in the management of the See also:district of Ferozepore; and when disaster came he was sent to See also:Peshawar in See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order to push up supports for the See also:relief of See also:Sale and the See also:garrison of See also:Jalalabad. The war had been
begun under the tripartite treaty signed at See also:Lahore on the loth of June 1838. But the Sikhs were slow to See also:play their part after the calamities in See also:Afghanistan. No one but Henry Lawrence could See also:manage the disorderly contingent which they reluctantly supplied to See also:Pollock's avenging See also:army in 1842. He helped to force the Khyber Pass on the 5th of See also:April, playing his guns from the heights, for 8 and 20 M. In recognition of his services Lord See also:Ellenborough appointed him to the See also:charge of the valley of See also:Dehra Dun and its See also:- HILL
- HILL (0. Eng. hyll; cf. Low Ger. hull, Mid. Dutch hul, allied to Lat. celsus, high, collis, hill, &c.)
- HILL, A
- HILL, AARON (1685-175o)
- HILL, AMBROSE POWELL
- HILL, DANIEL HARVEY (1821-1889)
- HILL, DAVID BENNETT (1843–1910)
- HILL, GEORGE BIRKBECK NORMAN (1835-1903)
- HILL, JAMES J
- HILL, JOHN (c. 1716-1775)
- HILL, MATTHEW DAVENPORT (1792-1872)
- HILL, OCTAVIA (1838– )
- HILL, ROWLAND (1744–1833)
- HILL, SIR ROWLAND (1795-1879)
hill stations, MVIussoorie and See also:Landour, where he first formed the See also:idea of asylums for the See also:children of See also:European soldiers. After a See also:month's experience there it was discovered that the See also:appointment was the legal right of the See also:civil service, and he was transferred, as assistant to the See also:envoy at Lahore, to See also:Umballa, where he reduced to order the lapsed territory of See also:Kaithal. Soon he received the See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office of See also:resident at the protected See also:court of See also:Nepal, where, assisted by his wife, he began a See also:series of contributions to the Calcutta See also:Review, a selected See also:volume of which forms an Anglo-See also:Indian classic. There, too, he elaborated his plans which resulted in the erection and endowment of the noblest philanthropic establishments in the See also:East—the Lawrence military asylums at Sanawar (on the road to See also:Simla), at See also:Murree in the See also:Punjab, at See also:Mount See also:Abu in See also:Rajputana, and at See also:Lovedale on the See also:Madras See also:Nilgiris. From 1844 to his See also:death he devoted all his income, above a modest See also:pittance for his children, to this and other forms of charity.
The Review articles led the new See also:governor-general, Lord See also:Hardinge, to summon Lawrence to his See also:side during the first See also:Sikh War; and not these articles only. He had published the results of his experience of Sikh See also:rule and soldiering in a vivid See also:work, the Adventures of an Officer in the Service of Ranjit Singh (1845), in which he vainly attempted to disguise his own See also:personality and exploits. After the doubtful triumphs of See also:Moodkee and Ferozshah Lawrence was summoned from Nepal to take the See also:place of See also:Major George Broadfoot, who had fallen. See also:Aliwal came; then the guns of See also:Sobraon chased the demoralized Sikhs across the See also:Sutlej. All through the See also:smoke Lawrence was at the side of the governor-general. He gave his See also:voice, not for the See also:- RESCUE (in Middle Eng. rescous, from O. Fr. recousse, Low Lat. rescussa, from reexcussa,reexcutere, to shake off again, re, again, ex, off, quatere, to shake)
rescue of the people from anarchy by See also:annexation, but for the reconstruction of the Sikh See also:government, and was himself appointed resident at Lahore, with power " over every See also:department and to any extent " as See also:president of the See also:council of regency till the maharaja Dhuleep Singh should come of See also:age. Soon disgusted by the " venal and selfish See also:durbar " who formed his Sikh colleagues, he summoned to his side assistants like See also:Nicholson, See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
James See also:Abbott and See also:Edwardes, till they all did too much for the people, as he regretfully confessed. But " my See also:chief confidence was in my brother John, ... who gave me always such help as only a brother could." Wearied out he went home with Lord Hardinge, and was made K.C.B., when the second Sikh War summoned him back at the end of 1848 to see the whole edifice of Sikh " reconstruction " collapse. It See also:fell to Lord See also:Dalhousie to proclaim the Punjab up to the Khyber British territory on the 29th of See also:March 1849. But still another See also:compromise was tried. As the best See also:man to reconcile the Sikh chiefs to the inevitable, Henry Lawrence was made president of the new See also:board of See also:administration with charge of the political duties, and his brother John was entrusted with the finances. John could not find the revenue necessary for the rapid See also:civilization of the new See also:province so See also:long as Henry would, for political reasons, insist on granting See also:life See also:pensions and alienating large estates to the needy remnants of Ranjit Singh's court. Lord Dalhousie delicately but firmly removed Sir Henry Lawrence to the charge of the See also:great nobles of Rajputana, and installed John as chief See also:commissioner. If resentment burned in Henry's See also:heart, it was not against his younger brother, who would See also:fain have retired. To him he said, " If you preserve the See also:peace of the See also:country and make the people high and See also:low happy, I shall have no regrets that I vacated the See also:- FIELD (a word common to many West German languages, cf. Ger. Feld, Dutch veld, possibly cognate with O.E. f olde, the earth, and ultimately with root of the Gr. irAaror, broad)
- FIELD, CYRUS WEST (1819-1892)
- FIELD, DAVID DUDLEY (18o5-1894)
- FIELD, EUGENE (1850-1895)
- FIELD, FREDERICK (18o1—1885)
- FIELD, HENRY MARTYN (1822-1907)
- FIELD, JOHN (1782—1837)
- FIELD, MARSHALL (183 1906)
- FIELD, NATHAN (1587—1633)
- FIELD, STEPHEN JOHNSON (1816-1899)
- FIELD, WILLIAM VENTRIS FIELD, BARON (1813-1907)
field for you."
In the See also:comparative See also:rest of Rajputana he once more took up
the See also:pen as an army reformer. In March and See also:September 1856
he published two articles, called forth by conversations with
Lord Dalhousie at Calcutta, whither he had gone as the See also:hero
of a public banquet. The governor-general had vainly warnedthe home authorities against reducing below 40,000 the British garrison of India even for the See also:Crimean War, and had sought to improve the position of the sepoys. Lawrence pointed out the latent causes of See also:mutiny, and uttered warnings to be too soon justified. In March 1857 he yielded to Lord See also:Canning's See also:request that he should then take the helm at Lucknow, but it was too See also:late. In ten days his magic rule put down administrative difficulties indeed, as he had done at Lahore. But what could even he effect with only 700 European soldiers, when the epidemic spread after the See also:Meerut outbreak of mutiny on the loth of May? In one See also:week he had completed those preparations which made the See also:defence of the Lucknow residency for ever memorable. Amid the deepening gloom Lord Canning ever wrote home of him as " a See also:tower of strength," and he was appointed provisional governor-general. On the 3oth of May mutiny burst forth in Oudh, and he was ready. On the 29th of June, pressed by fretful colleagues, and wasted by unceasing toil, he led 336 British soldiers with It guns and 220 natives out of Chinhat to reconnoitre the insurgents, when the natives joined the enemy and the residency was besieged. On the 2nd of See also:July, as he See also:lay exhausted by the See also:day's work and the terrific See also:heat in an exposed See also:room, a See also:- SHELL
- SHELL (O. Eng. scell, scyll, cf. Du. sceel, shell, Goth. skalja, tile; the word means originally a thin flake,. cf. Swed. skalja, to peel off; it is allied to " scale " and " skill," from a root meaning to cleave, divide, separate)
shell struck him, and in See also:forty-eight See also:hours he was no more. A baronetcy was conferred on his son. A See also:marble statue was placed in St See also:Paul's as the See also:national memorial of one who has been declared to be the noblest man that has lived and died for the See also:good of India.
His See also:biography was begun by Sir See also:Herbert Edwardes, and-completed (2 vols. 1872) by Herman See also:Merivale. See also J. J. McLeod Innes, Sir Henry Lawrence (" Rulers of India " series), 1898.
End of Article: LAWRENCE, SIR HENRY MONTGOMERY (1806–1857)
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