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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. | 1012 |  | Surname | Webster | | | Christian Names | Henry Binny | | | Dates at Haileybury | 1852-53 | | | Presidency | Bengal  | | | Career in India | 1854-86 | | | Annuitant | 1886 | | | Final Appointment 1 | Commissioner of Jhansi 1879; Inspector General of Police, N[orth] W[est] P[rovinces] 1881 | | | Mutiny Service | Joint Magistrate of Banda, garrisoned by a wing of the Native Infantry, the headquarters of which were at Cawnpore. The effect of the Mutiny at Cawnpore was quickly felt at Banda, which became very soon cut off from all communication with the outer world. In a few days a number of fugitives from Futtehpore, where Robert Tucker, the Judge, was murdered, reached Banda. Acting under the guidance of the able Magistrate, F. O. Mayne, all the English took up their quarters in the Palace of the Nuwab, who professed loyalty. But in a very short time he lost control over his men, and after a very anxious time, and it becoming evident that it was impossible to hold the Station with any advantage, it was resolved to make for Mirzapore and Benares, where the English were holding their own. Among the party were several women and children. They started at 10 o'clock at night and, proceeding unmolested through an excited crowd, struck the road for the fort of Kalinjar. Passing through Nagode and Rewah, they reached Mirzapore, whence Webster with others proceeded to Benares. The march, which occupied 21 days, was a very perilous one; and it is wonderful how the women and children survived it. Mrs. Webster at starting had a bad fall and broke her collar-bone, but bore up most bravely. At Benares Webster joined a body of Volunteers sent to avenge the murder of W. C. Moore at Gopeeganj in Mirzapore. He subsequently accompanied Mayne to Soraon on the Oudh Frontier, where they were for some time actively engaged. In May 1858 Webster, after much trying work, was invalided home. |
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