Sir Edward Lugard (8 May 1810 – 31 October 1898) was a

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officer who served as Adjutant-General in India (1857–58) and later as Permanent

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(1861–71) at the

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Early life

Lugard was son of Captain John Lugard (1761–1843), of the

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and Secretary at the Duke of York's Military Asylum,

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, and his wife Jane Llewellyn Trewman (c. 1781–1861), daughter of Robert Trewman (1738/9–1802), of

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, a printer and proprietor of

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, of a family recorded at Exeter since the 1500s. Edward Lugard's elder brother, the Rev. Frederick Grueber Lugard, vicar of

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, was father of the explorer and colonial administrator

Frederick Lugard, 1st Baron Lugard Frederick John Dealtry Lugard, 1st Baron Lugard (22 January 1858 – 11 April 1945), known as Sir Frederick Lugard between 1901 and 1928, was a British soldier, mercenary, explorer of Africa and colonial administrator. He was Governor of Hong ...

.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

Military career

Commissioned as an

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in the

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in August 1828, Lugard fought in the Battle of Kabul in 1842 during the

First Anglo-Afghan War The First Anglo-Afghan War ( fa, جنگ اول افغان و انگلیس) was fought between the British Empire and the Emirate of Afghanistan, Emirate of Kabul from 1838 to 1842. The British initially successfully invaded the country taking si ...

. He then served in the

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(1845–46), taking part in the battles of

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, Aliwal and

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, later also serving in the

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(1848–49). 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

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(1856–57), and Adjutant-General in India from July 1857. He commanded the 2nd Division at the

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in 1858 during the

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, and became a Knight Commander of the

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in January 1858. After nearly three decades in India, Lugard returned to the United Kingdom in 1859 where he served as Permanent

at the

from 1861 to 1871. Advanced to Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath in March 1867, he became a

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in November 1871 and was promoted to the rank of

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in November 1872. In 1862 he was appointed

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of the

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, which amalgamated in 1881 with the 70th Foot to form the

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, after which he was Colonel of the 1st Battalion of the new regiment until his death in 1898, aged 88. There is a memorial plaque to Lugard in

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, Surrey.

Personal life

In 1837, Lugard married Isabella Mowbray Hart (d. 1868), daughter of Henry Hart, MD, of

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; he married secondly, in 1871, Martha (1846–1922), daughter of Joseph Fullbrook, of

, and a cousin of the distinguished soldier Major-General

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