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                         English Men of Action


                             LORD LAWRENCE

                       [Illustration: colophon]

                     [Illustration: LORD LAWRENCE

    Engraved by O. LACOUR after a Photograph by MAULL AND POLYBANK]




                             LORD LAWRENCE


                                  BY

                          SIR RICHARD TEMPLE


                                London
                           MACMILLAN AND CO.
                             AND NEW YORK
                                 1889

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CONTENTS


                                                    PAGE
CHAPTER I

INTRODUCTION                                           1


CHAPTER II

EARLY LIFE, 1811-1829                                  7


CHAPTER III

THE DELHI TERRITORY, 1829-1846                        15


CHAPTER IV

THE TRANS-SUTLEJ STATES, 1846-1849                    27


CHAPTER V

PUNJAB BOARD OF ADMINISTRATION, 1849-1853             45


CHAPTER VI

CHIEF COMMISSIONER OF THE PUNJAB, 1853-1857           69

CHAPTER VII

WAR OF THE MUTINIES, 1857-1859                        92


CHAPTER VIII

SOJOURN IN ENGLAND, 1859-1863                        137


CHAPTER IX

THE GOVERNMENT OF INDIA, 1864-1869                   148


CHAPTER X

CONCLUSION, 1869-1879                                190




CHAPTER I

INTRODUCTION


John Laird Mair Lawrence was born in 1811 and died in 1879, being
sixty-eight years of age. Within that time he entered the Civil Service
of the East India Company,