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WARBURTON, See also:COLONEL See also:SIR See also:ROBERT (1842–1899) , Anglo-See also:Indian soldier and See also:administrator, was the son of an See also:artillery officer who had been taken prisoner at See also:Kabul in 1842, and escaped through the See also:good offices of an Afghan princess. He married this See also:lady, and she transmitted to their son that See also:power of exercising See also:influence over the tribes of the See also:north-See also:west frontier which stood him in good See also:stead during his See also:long service in See also:India. Warburton entered the Royal Artillery in 1861, took See also:part in the Abyssinian See also:War of 1867--68, and then joined the See also:Bengal See also:Staff See also:Corps. He served with distinction in the expedition against the Utman Khel in 1878 and in the Afghan War of 1878–80. Very soon after the See also:British See also:government had made permanent arrangements for keeping open the Khyber Pass, Warburton was appointed to take See also:charge of it as See also:political officer. This See also:post he held, discharging its duties with conspicuous ability, between 1879 and 1882 with intervals of other See also:duty, and continuously from 1882 until 1890. He turned the See also:rude levies which formed the Khyber Rifles into a See also:fine corps, ready to serve the Indian government wherever they might be required. He made the road safe, kept the Afridis friendly, and won the thanks of the See also:Punjab government, expressed in a See also:special See also:order upon his retirement, for his good See also:work. When the Afridis began to cause anxiety in 1897, Colonel Warburton was asked by the government of India if he would assist in quieting the excitement amongst them. He declared himself ready to do so, but in the meantime the trouble had come to a See also:head. Colonel Warburton took part in the See also:campaign which followed; at its See also:close his active career ended. He occupied his leisure in retirement by See also:writing his See also:memoirs, Eighteen Years in the Khyber (1900).

He died at See also:

Kensington on the 22nd of See also:April 1899.

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