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 Memorials of Old Haileybury College
| Date transcribed | 2000-00-00 | | Transcribed by | Benda Cook | | Comment | Publication Date: 1894
Author: F. C. Danvers, Sir M Monier -Williams, Sir S. C. Bayley, P. Wigram, the late Brand Sapte, and many contributors.
Publisher Constable & Co.: Westminster
British Library: OIR 354.54 Held in the Asia, Pacific and Africa Collections.
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| | No. | 955 |  | Surname | Brandreth | | | Christian Names | Arthur | | | Dates at Haileybury | 1849-51 | | | 1st Term | Mathematics Prize | | | 2nd Term | Mathematics, Law, Hist & Pol Econ, Persian, General Proficiency at Easter Prizes | | | 3rd Term | Mathematics, Law, Hist & Pol Econ, Persian, Hindustani, Hindi Prizes | | | 4th Term | Mathematics, Law, Hindustani Medals; Sanskrit, Persian, Hindi, General Proficiency at Easter Prizes | | | Presidency | Bengal  | | | Career in India | 1851-82 | | | Annuitant | 1882 | | | Place of Death | London, [Middlesex, England] | | | Date of Death | 1892 Dec 5 | | | Final Appointment 1 | Commissioner in Punjab; Judge of Chief Court, Punjab | | | Mutiny Service | Settlement Officer of a part of the Jhelum District, which had given much trouble in the second Sikh War. He was called away from this work to act as Secretary to Sir John Lawrence, and so was present at all the weighty conferences of Lawrence, Montgomery, Macleod, Arthur Roberts and Macpherson. He was allowed to continue the Settlement work, and so well did he manage this, with the help of his good native assistants, that the formerly troublesome Mahomedan landowners vied with each other in showing their loyalty. They organized and furnished bodies of Volunteer Cavalry to guard the Tahsils and escort treasure to headquarters, thus freeing all the Military Police to join the new Regiments intended for Dehli. This highly important service was most creditable to Brandreth, who well merited the confidence placed in him by John Lawrence. It was found necessary to disarm the Native troops at Rawal Pindi, and it was owing to Brandreth and E. Thornton that this was done peacefully. For half an hour these two and others risked their lives, riding up and down amongst the Regiment and finally persuading them to lay down their arms. Not only were they in danger from the men, but at one time, a shot having been fired, our Artillery were on the point of opening on them and were only just stopped in time to save the Officers being swept away with the Mutineers. |
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