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Sir Henry Montgomery Lawrence

British colonial official
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Born:
June 28, 1806, Matura, Ceylon [now Sri Lanka]
Died:
July 4, 1857, Lucknow, India (aged 51)

Sir Henry Montgomery Lawrence (born June 28, 1806, Matura, Ceylon [now Sri Lanka]—died July 4, 1857, Lucknow, India) was an English soldier and administrator who helped to consolidate British rule in the Punjab region. After joining the Bengal artillery in 1823, Lawrence served at the capture of Arakan in the First Anglo-Burmese War (1824–26). He studied the Urdu, Hindi, and Persian languages and in 1833 joined the survey department of the North-Western Provinces. Placed in charge of Firozpur, in the Punjab (1839), he acquired a substantial knowledge of Sikh politics. After holding several other posts, he in 1846 was appointed ...(100 of 329 words)

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