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SIR HENRY WYLIE NORMAN (1826-1904)

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Originally appearing in Volume V19, Page 748 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SIR See also:HENRY See also:WYLIE See also:NORMAN (1826-1904)  , See also:field-See also:marshal and colonial See also:governor, was See also:born on the 2nd of See also:December 1826, and entered the See also:Indian See also:army at the See also:age of seventeen . In 1840 his See also:father, who had been for many years a See also:merchant in See also:Cuba, became a partner in a See also:mercantile See also:house in See also:Calcutta, where he was joined by his son in 1842 . In 1844 the latter obtained a cadetship . He went through the second See also:Sikh See also:campaign and having attracted the favourable See also:notice of See also:Sir See also:Colin See also:Campbell was selected by him to accompany an expedition against the See also:Kohat Pass Afridis in 185o as officiating See also:brigade-See also:major . The subaltern of twenty-four was given a substantive See also:appointment in this capacity for a splendid See also:deed of gallantry, which is recorded by Sir See also:Charles See also:Napier in the following terms: " In the pass of Kohat a See also:sepoy See also:picket, descending a precipitous See also:mountain under See also:fire and the See also:rolling of large stones, had some men killed andwounded . Four of the latter, dreadfully hurt, crept under some rocks for shelter . They were not missed until the picket reached the bottom, but were then discovered by our glasses, high up and helpless . Fortunately the enemy did not see them, and some sepoys volunteered a See also:rescue, headed by See also:Norman of the 31st Native See also:Infantry and See also:Ensign See also:Murray of the loth Native Infantry . These brave men—would that the names of all were known to me for See also:record!—ascended the rocks in See also:defiance of the enemy, and brought the wounded men down." Norman served in numerous frontier expeditions between 185o and 1854, and in the suppression of the Sonthal See also:rebellion of 1855–56 . In the See also:Mutiny campaign he was constantly engaged, being See also:present at the See also:siege of See also:Delhi, the See also:relief of See also:Lucknow and a number of other affairs . As See also:adjutant-See also:general of the Delhi Field Force, he was one of the leading See also:spirits of the siege, and afterwards became its See also:chief chronicler . Altogether he was mentioned twenty-five times in despatches .

He afterwards became assistant military secretary for Indian affairs at the See also:

Horse See also:Guards, military secretary to the See also:government of See also:India, military member of the See also:viceroy's See also:council and member of the secretary of See also:state for India's council . In 1883 Sir See also:Henry began his colonial career as governor of See also:Jamaica, an appointment from which he was transferred in 1888 to the governorship of See also:Queensland . Here he remained until 1895, when he came See also:home to See also:act as See also:agent-general for the See also:colony in See also:London . In 1893 he was offered the viceroyalty of India, but, after first accepting, declined it . In 1897 he was chairman of the royal See also:commission of inquiry into the See also:condition of the See also:West Indies . In See also:April 1901 he was appointed governor of the Royal See also:Hospital, See also:Chelsea, in See also:succession to Sir Donald See also:Stewart . In 1902 he was made a field-marshal . He died on the 26th of See also:October 1904 . See Sir See also:William See also:Lee See also:Warner, See also:Memoirs of Field-marshal Sir Henry See also:Wylie Norman (1908) .

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