Henry Lawrence (Indian Army officer)

Sir Henry Lawrence
Born(1806-06-28)28 June 1806
Matara, British Ceylon
Died4 July 1857(1857-07-04) (aged 51)
Lucknow, Oudh State, Company India
AllegianceEast India Company
Service/branchBengal Army
Years of service1823–1857
RankBrigadier General
UnitBengal Artillery
Battles/warsFirst Burmese War
First Anglo-Afghan War
First Anglo-Sikh War

Second Anglo-Sikh War

Indian Mutiny

AwardsKnight Commander of the Order of the Bath
Spouse(s)
(m. 1837)
RelationsSir George Lawrence (brother)
John Lawrence, 1st Baron Lawrence (brother)
Other workResident Minister at Lahore
Chief Commissioner of Awadh

Brigadier General Sir Henry Montgomery Lawrence, KCB (28 June 1806 – 4 July 1857) was a British military officer, surveyor, administrator and statesman in British India. He is best known for leading a group of administrators in the Punjab affectionately known as Henry Lawrence's "Young Men", as the founder of the Lawrence Military Asylums and for his death at the Siege of Lucknow during the Indian Rebellion of 1857.


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