EDWARDES, SIR HERBERT BENJAMIN

EDWARDES, SIR HERBERT BENJAMIN
   soldier and administrator in India, born at Frodesley, Shropshire; was actively engaged in the first Sikh War and in the Mutiny; served under Sir Henry Lawrence, whose Life he partly wrote (1819-1868).

The Nuttall Encyclopaedia. . 1907.

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