Sir Henry Montgomery Lawrence (June 28, 1806 - July 4, 1857) was a British soldier and statesman in India, who died defending Lucknow during the Indian Mutiny. (Some entries on this page have been duplicated on August 1. ... 1806 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... July 4 is the 185th day of the year (186th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 180 days remaining. ... 1857 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... Lucknow is the capital city of the state of Uttar Pradesh, India. ... An engraving titled Sepoy Indian troops dividing the spoils after their mutiny against British rule gives a contemporary view of events from the British perspective. ...

Lawrence was the brother of the 1st Lord Lawrence and was born at Matara, Ceylon. Educated at Haileybury, in 1823 he joined the Bengal Artillery at the Calcutta suburb of Dum Dum, where also Henry Havelock was stationed about the same time. John Laird Mair Lawrence, 1st Baron Lawrence (4 March 1811 - 27 June 1879) was a British statesman who served as Viceroy of India from 1864 to 1869. ... The East India Company College was from 1805 to 1858 the college of the British East India Company (EIC). ... This article is on Calcutta/Kolkata, the city. ... Major-General Sir Henry Havelock (5 April 1795 - 24 November 1857) was a British general. ...

In the first Burmese War, Lawrence and his battery formed part of the Chittagong column which General Morrison led over the jungle-covered hills of Arakan, until fever decimated them, and Lawrence found himself back in Britain, wasted by a disease never completely left him. The First Anglo-Burmese War lasted from 1823 to 1826. ... Chittagong (Bengali: চট্টগ্রাম, Chaṭṭagrām) is the major sea-port and second largest city of Bangladesh. ...

He returned to India in 1829, and was appointed revenue surveyor by Lord William Bentinck at Orakhpur. He spent some years in camp, during which he married his cousin Honoria Marshall, and surveyed every village in four districts, each larger than Yorkshire. He was then recalled to a brigade by the outbreak of the First Afghan War towards the close of 1838. William Henry Cavendish Cavendish-Scott-Bentinck, 4th Duke of Portland (6 June 1768–27 March 1854). ... The White Yorkshire rose. ... The First Anglo-Afghan War lasted from 1839 to 1842. ...

As assistant to Sir George Russell Clerk, he now added to his political experience in the management of the district of Ferozepore; and when news of disaster came from Kabul in November 1841 he was sent to Peshawar in order to push up supports for the relief of Sale and the garrison of Jalalabad. Kabul Kabul (34°32′ N 69°10′ E, Kâbl, in Persian کابل) is the capital and largest city of Afghanistan with a population variously estimated at 2 to 4 million. ... 1841 is a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... Peshāwar (known as Purushapura in Sanskrit, Pai-khawar in Pashto) is a city in Pakistans North-West Frontier Province (pop. ... Jalalabad (Persian: Jalālābād) is the capital of Nangarhar province in Afghanistan, 150 km east of Kabul near the Khyber Pass. ...

In 1857 the Siege of Lucknow took place in Oudh province, which had recently been annexed. The British community, including the garrison of some 1700 men, took refuge in the British residency where a siege began on June 30. Commander Henry Lawrence was one of the first casualties. When Lawrence was critically injured during the siege, he is supposed to have said to those around him: "Put on my tomb only this; Here lies Henry Lawrence who tried to do his duty." Lucknow, the capital of Oudh, was the scene of a historic defence during the Sepoy Mutiny of 1857, known as the Siege of Lucknow. ...

Henry Lawrence established at three places, at that time all within India, the Lawrence Asylum for the education of the children of European soldiers serving in India. These institutions exist even today as the prestigious Lawrence Schools Sanawar (UP, India), Lovedale (TN, India) and Ghora Ghali (near Murrey) (Pakistan). Uttar Pradesh (Hindi: उत्तर प्रदेश, Urdu: اتر پردیش), also popularly known by its acronym UP, is the fifth largest and the most populous state in India. ... Tamil Nadu (தமிழ் நாடு, Land of the Tamils) is a state at the southern tip of India. ... Tinctures are the colours used to blazon coats of arms in heraldry. ...

Henry Lawrence Island in the Indian Ocean, at 12N 93E, is named for him, as is the town of Lawrence in New Zealand. Lawrence is a small town of some 500 inhabitants in Otago, in New Zealands South Island. ...

See also

• Lawrence School

The Lawrence School, Lovedale (near Ootacamund ), Tamilnadu, India, was established on 6th September 1858, and is named after Major General Sir Henry Montgomery Lawrence of the Army of the colonial India’s British Raj. ...

External links

• Illustrated London News Oct 24 1863 - p.415 The Lawrence Asylum at Murree
• Henry Lawrence Island
• The Second Anglo Sikh War