Henry Montgomery Lawrence
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Brigadier-General Sir Henry Montgomery Lawrence KCB |
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| Born |
28 June 1806 Ceylon |
| Died | 4 July 1857 (aged 51) Lucknow, British India |
| Allegiance |
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| Service/branch | Bengal Army |
| Years of service | 1823–1857 |
| Rank | Brigadier-General |
| Unit | Bengal Artillery |
| Battles/wars |
First Burmese War First Anglo-Afghan War First Anglo-Sikh War Second Anglo-Sikh War Indian Mutiny |
| Awards |
 Army of India Medal Candahar, Ghuznee, Cabul Medal Sutlej Medal Punjab Medal India General Service Medal Indian Mutiny Medal
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| Relations |
John Lawrence, 1st Baron Lawrence Sir George St Patrick Lawrence |
| Other work |
Resident Minister at Lahore Chief Commissioner of Awadh |
Sir Henry Montgomery Lawrence KCB (28 June 1806 – 4 July 1857) was a British soldier and statesman in India, who died in the Siege of Lucknow during the Indian Rebellion. He is remembered in the Indian subcontinent as founder of the four Lawrence Military Asylums.
Lawrence was born in 1806 into an Irish family at Matara, Ceylon the eldest son of Lieutenant-Colonel Alexander William Lawrence and the brother of John Lawrence, 1st Baron Lawrence. Educated at Foyle College, Derry and then Addiscombe Military Seminary, in 1823 he joined the Bengal Artillery at the Calcutta suburb of Dum Dum, where Henry Havelock was also stationed about the same time. 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 that never completely left him. He returned to India in 1829, and was appointed revenue surveyor by Lord William Bentinck at Gorakhpur. 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.
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