Author: Frederick P. GibbonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
The Lawrences of the Punjab
Author: Frederick P. GibbonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
The Lawrences of the Punjab
Author: Frederick P. GibbonPublisher: Theclassics.Us
ISBN: 9781230361345
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XXVI (1869-1879) THE LAST YEARS OF JOHN LAWRENCE Home Life--The London School Board--Tributes to Missionary Work--Miss Gaster's Reminiscences--The Forward Policy--He condemns the Government's Afghan Policy--His Death. Lord Lawrence's official connection with India was over, and his ideal of domestic happiness at last seemed possible of attainment. And in a measure it was attained, though the realisation of the day-dreams of the stifling kutcheri was only partial, for the children whom he had loved to gather round him, in whose romps he had joined with a zest hardly less than their own, had grown up and were dispersed.1 During the parents' last absence from England they had lived at Southgate with their aunt Letitia and their cousin Honoria, the daughter of Sir Henry Lawrence. On the death of Mrs. Hayes, Sir Herbert and Lady Edwardes had generously taken charge of the Southgate house so that Lady Lawrence might remain another year with her husband. The family now removed to Queen's Gate, Kensington, and in 1871 Brockett Hall, Hertfordshire, became their country home. Though fairly regular in his attendance at the House of Lords, Lord Lawrence took little part in debate. He was 1 Nine children were living at this date--four sons, John, Henry, Charles Napier, and Bertie, and five daughters, Kate, Emily, Alice Margaret, Mary, and Maude. A son and daughter had died in infancy. The eldest, Kate (married in 1868 to Colonel Randall), was born in 1843, the youngest, Maude, in 1864. no orator, and, in common with most men of prompt and decisive action and of administrative ability, he distrusted overmuch fluency of language, though he listened with admiration, and some envy, to genuine eloquence. Mr. Gladstone, writing to express the...
Life of Lord Lawrence
Author: Reginald Bosworth SmithPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 566
Book Description
Life of Lord Lawrence
Author: Reginald Bosworth SmithPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385322812
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 674
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.
Victorian Worthies: Sixteen Biographies
Author: George Henry BlorePublisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Victorian Worthies: Sixteen Biographies" by George Henry Blore. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
The Boy's Own Paper
Author: Lord Lawrence
Author: Sir Richard TemplePublisher: London : Macmillan
ISBN:
Category : Governors
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
The Punjab in Peace and War
Author: Septimus Smet ThorburnPublisher: Atlantic Publishers & Distri
ISBN:
Category : Punjab
Languages : en
Pages : 372
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India in 1857–59
Author: Dolores DominPublisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3112709276
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
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