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Edwardes, Herbert Benjamin.
Hon. LL.D. 1860.
Second s. of Benjamin, R. of Frodesley, Salop.
B. there Nov. 12, 1819.
School, Richmond.
At King's College, London, 1837-40.
Cadet, Bengal Infantry, 1841.
A.D.C. to Sir H. Gough, Commander-in-Chief of the Indian Army, at the battles of Moodkee, 1845, and Sobraon, 1846.
Brevet-Major.
C.B., K.C.B., 1860.
Major-Gen., Indian Army, and K.C.S.I., 1868.
Henry Lawrence declared that 'since the days of Clive no man has done as Edwardes.
A born ruler of men.' Latterly threw himself into the evangelical opposition to ritualism in the Anglican Church.
Vice-President of the Church Missionary Society.
Hon. D.C.L., Oxford, 1850.
Married, July, 1850, Emma, dau. of James Sidney, of Richmond.
Author, A Year on the Punjab Frontier, 1850.
Died Dec. 23, 1868, in London.
M.I. in Westminster Abbey.
(D.N.B.; Al. Oxon. For this family of Edwardes see E. P. Shirley, Noble and Gentle Men of England, 199.)
Herbert Benjamin EDWARDES
Approx. lifespan: 1819–1868
Hon.LLD 1860
Second s. of Benjami EDWARDES n, R.: Frodesley, Shropshire
b. there 1819:11:12
Sch: Richmond School [Richmond], [ Surrey ???]
At Sch: King's College London 1837-40
Cadet, Bengal , India Infantry 1841
A.D.C.: Sir H. Gough, Commander-in-Chief of Indian Army,at the battles of Moodkee, [ India ] 1845, and Sobraon, [ India ] 1846
Brevet-Major: . C.B., K.C.B. 1860
Major-General: Indian Army, and K.
CSI 1868
Henry Lawrence declared that 'since the days of Clive no man has done as Edwardes. A born ruler of men.'
Latterly threw himself into the evangelical opposition to ritualism in the Anglican Church.
Vice-President of the Church
Missionary: Society
Hon. DCL Oxford: 1850
m. 1850:07,Emma dau. of James SIDNEY of Richmond, [ Surrey ???]
Publ.: A Year on the Punjab Frontier 1850
d. 1868:12:23
in London
MI Westminster Abbey [ London ]
( D.N.B.; Al. Oxon. For this family of Edwardes see E. P. Shirley, Noble and Gentle Men of England, 199.)

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