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 Dictionary of Indian Biography G to I
| Date transcribed | 2011-04-00 | | Transcribed by | Peter Bailey | | Comment | Note that notables of Indian, Afghan, etc. origin do not always follow the alphabetical name pattern established by Buckland in his original work. |
| | Surnames | Havelock | | | First Name(s) | Henry | | | Titles | Sir | | | Year of Birth | 1795 | | | Year of Death | 1857 | | | Entry | Maj-General : born April 5, 1795 : educated at Swanscombe and the Charterhouse : entered at the Middle Temple for the bar, but in 1815 went into the Army, studied military works diligently : to Calcutta in Jan. 1823, with the 13th Light Infantry : in 1824 he was nominated D.A.A.G. of the Burma expedition, and, with an interval of sick leave, served until the conclusion of the war : in 1827 he was made Adjutant of the Depot at Chinsura : in 1828 published his Campaigns in Ava, and in 1829 married a daughter of Dr. Marshman, the Serampur Missionary, and joined the Baptist community. He was deeply religious all his life. Captain in 1838. In that year he was appointed to the Staff of Sir Willoughby Cotton in the Kabul expedition through Kandahar and Ghazni. After the capture of Kabul, he returned to Serampur to complete a narrative of the expedition. It attracted no attention. In 1841 he returned to Kabul as Persian Interpreter to General Elphinstone (q.v.), then in command. In Oct. 1841, he joined Sir R. Sale's brigade returning to Jalalabad, was in the ""illutrious garrision"" during its seige and at the defeat of Akbar Khan in April, 1842 : at Maharajpur in 1843, and in the Satlaj campaign of 1845-6 under Sir Hugh Gough : in 1854, Quarter-Master-General, and, in 1855, Adjutant-General. He commanded a Division in the Persian war of 1856-7, and was present at Muhamra. On his way from Bombay to Calcutta he was wrecked off Ceylon. From Calcutta in June, 1857, he hurried to Allahabad, and in command of the movable column fought several actions, occupying Cawnpur after defeating the Nana Sahib on July 16, 1857 : fought more engagements, and after three failures relieved Lucknow in Sep. 1857, Sir James Outram accompanying his force. Compelled to remain inactive in Lucknow until Sir Colin Campbell arrived in Nov. : he fell ill and died at the Dilkusha on Nov. 24, 1857, before his Baronetcy and pension reached him. They were both granted to his son, and an annuity to his widow. His statue is in Trafalgar Square. |
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