Sir Henry Lawrence (1806-1857) (original) (raw)

Lawrence on India and the Indian Army

• “No place or office should be absolutely barred to the native soldier”: Sir Henry Lawrence on the Need for Native Officers in the Indian Army
• Lawrence’s Justification of British Rule in South Asia

Portraits of Lawrence and Memorials to him

• Watercolor on ivory (c. 1847)
• Photograph (c. 1857)
• Mezzotint (c. 1857)
• Marble bust (c. 1849)
• Lawrence’s memorial in Kolkata's St Paul's Cathedral
• Lawrence’s memorial in London's St Paul's Cathedral

Related material

• "Hole in the wall of the Residency made by shell that wounded Sir Henry Lawrence July 2 1857"

Bibliography

Lawrence, Sir Henry Montgomery. Essays, Military and Political, Written India. London: W. H. Allen, 1859. Internet Archive. Inline version of a copy in the University of California Library. Web. 7 November 2018.

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Last modified 3 January 2019