Sir Henry Montgomery Lawrence
As a colonial solider and administrator, Sir Henry Montgomery Lawrence aided the consolidation of British rule in the Punjab region. He died while defending British interests at Lucknow in 1857.
Sir Henry Montgomery Lawrence
British colonial official
Sir Henry Montgomery Lawrence (born June 28, 1806, Matura, Ceylon [now Matara, 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...
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