Edwarde, SIR HERBERT BENJAMIN

Edwarde, SIR HERBERT BENJAMIN, was born at Frodesley in Shropshire, 12th Nov. 1819. Entering the army of the East India Company in 1840, he was, on the outbreak of the first Sikh war (1845), appointed on the staff of Sir Hugh Gough, and fought at Mudki and Sobraon. As assistant to Sir Henry Lawrence, British resident at Lahore, he took an active share in punishing the Dewan Mulraj of Multan, who had murdered Mr Vans Agnew and Lient. Anderson, defeating him twice, and capturing his city (1849). During the Indian Mutiny, Edwarde, as commissioner of the Peshawar frontier, did good service by conciliating Dost Mohammed of Afghanistan, and securing his neutrality. In 1865 ill-health obliged him to return to England, where he commenced to write a Life of Sir H. Lawrence, which was completed after his death (at London, on 23d Dec. 1868) by Herman Merivale. He also wrote A Year on the Punjab Frontier in 1848-49.