Sir Edward Lugard
Sir Edward Lugard
Born(1810-05-08)8 May 1810
London, England
Died31 October 1898(1898-10-31) (aged 88)
Allegiance United Kingdom
Service/branch British Army
RankGeneral
Commands heldAdjutant-General in India (1857–58)
2nd Division (1857)
Battles/warsFirst Afghan War
First Sikh War
Second Sikh War
Persian campaign
Indian Rebellion[1]
AwardsKnight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath
RelationsHenry Lugard (brother)
Frederick Lugard (nephew)
Memorial plaque to Lugard in All Saints Church, Kingston upon Thames, Surrey

Sir Edward Lugard GCB, PC (8 May 1810 – 31 October 1898) was a British Army officer who served as Adjutant-General in India (1857–58) and later as Permanent Under-Secretary of State for War (1861–71) at the War Office.

Early life

Lugard was son of Captain John Lugard (1761–1843), of the 6th (Inniskilling) Dragoons, Adjutant and Secretary at the Duke of York's Military Asylum, Chelsea, and his wife Jane Llewellyn Trewman (c. 1781–1861), daughter of Robert Trewman (1738/9–1802), of Exeter, Devon, a printer and proprietor of Trewman's Exeter Flying Post, of a family recorded at Exeter since the 1500s.[2] Edward Lugard's elder brother, the Rev. Frederick Grueber Lugard, vicar of Norton-juxta-Kempsey, Worcester, was father of the explorer and colonial administrator Frederick Lugard, 1st Baron Lugard.[3]

Military career

Commissioned as an Ensign in the 31st Regiment of Foot in August 1828,[4] Lugard fought in the Battle of Kabul in 1842 during the First Anglo-Afghan War. He then served in the First Sikh War (1845–46), taking part in the battles of Moodkee, Aliwal and Sobraon, later also serving in the Second Sikh War (1848–49).[5] He became Adjutant General for the Punjab District in 1848, then Deputy Adjutant General in Bombay in 1854, before acting as Chief of Staff during the Persian campaign (1856–57),[5] and Adjutant-General in India from July 1857.[6] He commanded the 2nd Division at the Capture of Lucknow in 1858 during the Indian Rebellion,[5] and became a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath in January 1858.[7]

After nearly three decades in India, Lugard returned to the United Kingdom in 1859 where he served as Permanent Under-Secretary of State for War at the War Office from 1861 to 1871.[5] Advanced to Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath in March 1867,[8] he became a Privy Councillor in November 1871[9] and was promoted to the rank of General in November 1872.[10]

In 1862 he was appointed Colonel of the 31st (Huntingdonshire) Regiment of Foot, which amalgamated in 1881 with the 70th Foot to form the East Surrey Regiment, after which he was Colonel of the 1st Battalion of the new regiment until his death in 1898, aged 88.[11]

There is a memorial plaque to Lugard in All Saints Church, Kingston upon Thames, Surrey.[5]

Personal life

In 1837, Lugard married Isabella Mowbray Hart (d. 1868), daughter of Henry Hart, MD, of Bishopwearmouth, County Durham; he married secondly, in 1871, Martha (1846–1922), daughter of Joseph Fullbrook, of Chelsea, and a cousin of the distinguished soldier Major-General Charles Fullbrook-Leggatt.[3]

References

  1. ↑ Lugard's campaigns are shown on his memorial plaque in All Saints Church, Kingston upon Thames.
  2. ↑ "Trewman, Robert (1738/9–1802), printer and newspaper proprietor". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. 2004. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/61031. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  3. 1 2 The New Extinct Peerage 1884-1971: Containing Extinct, Abeyant, Dormant and Suspended Peerages With Genealogies and Arms, L. G. Pine, Heraldry Today, 1972, p. 185
  4. ↑ "No. 18495". The London Gazette. 12 August 1828. p. 1534.
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 "General The Rt Hon Sir Edward Lugard GCB 1881 – 1898". Queen's Royal Surreys. Retrieved 1 March 2020.
  6. ↑ "No. 22051". The London Gazette. 13 October 1857. p. 3426.
  7. ↑ "No. 22086". The London Gazette. 22 January 1858. p. 309.
  8. ↑ "No. 23230". The London Gazette. 15 March 1867. p. 1724.
  9. ↑ "No. 23793". The London Gazette. 7 November 1871. p. 4503.
  10. ↑ "No. 23915". The London Gazette. 1 November 1872. p. 5109.
  11. ↑ "East Surrey Regiment". Regiments.org. Archived from the original on 4 January 2006. Retrieved 27 February 2016.
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