Lena, Lady Login ( Campbell; 1820 – 17 April 1904) was a

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courtier and author. She was involved with educating

Duleep Singh Maharaja Sir Duleep Singh, GCSI (4 September 1838 – 22 October 1893), or Sir Dalip Singh, and later in life nicknamed the "Black Prince of Perthshire", was the last ''Maharaja'' of the Sikh Empire. He was Maharaja Ranjit Singh's youngest son ...

, deposed

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of the

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kingdom of the Punjab, when he was still a child, and later with bringing him to the UK. Queen Victoria asked her to look after another exiled Indian noble, Victoria Gouramma, daughter of the deposed ruler of Coorg, and to find her an acceptable husband.

Life

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in Scotland in 1820. She went to India with her sister and brother-in-law, Major Hope Dick. It was in

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that she married

John Spencer Login Sir John Spencer Login (9 November 1809 – 18 October 1863) was a Scottish surgeon in British India, best remembered as the guardian of Maharajah Duleep Singh and the Koh-i-Noor diamond following the annexation of Punjab and Last Treaty of Laho ...

in 1842. He was the Resident Surgeon at

, the physician to the court of Oudh and Postmaster General of Oudh. As physician to the Court of Oudh, Login was barred from directly examining women in the zenana. However, here, his wife Lena was able assist in diagnosing the medical conditions. Their children were depicted in a miniature on ivory by an anonymous Indian artist in 1846. The scene shows their oldest son Edward William Spencer Login (born 1843) on a rocking horse, their daughter Lena Margaret Campbell Login (1845) in a blue dress, and the infant Louisa Marion d’Arcy Login (1846) held by the children's ayah. She and the Indian child in the picture are unidentified. They had six children.Login (née Campbell), Lena, Lady Login.
Rosemary Cargill Raza, ''

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'', Oxford University Press, Oxford. Online edition. Retrieved 14 June 2018. In 1849 her husband was made the guardian to

who was a deposed teenage ruler. Lena became part of his education giving him lessons in expected (British) behaviour. Duleep Singh became a Christian in 1853 and the following year they all went to Britain where her husband was knighted. In 1858 Queen Victoria asked her to find a suitor for her goddaughter,

Victoria Gouramma Victoria Gouramma (sometimes spelt Gowramma in India or Gauromma in British newspapers of the period) (4 July 1841 – 30 March 1864) was an Indian princess. Life She was born in Benares, to Chikka Virarajendra (spelt "Veer Rajunder Wadeer" i ...

. There was an expectation that she would be a suitable wife for

who was an deposed member of royalty, but he instead chose to marry

Bamba Müller Maharani Bamba, Lady Duleep Singh (born Bamba Müller; 6 July 1848 – 18 September 1887), was the Egyptian wife of Maharaja Duleep Singh, Sir Duleep Singh. Brought up by Christian missionaries, she married Sir Duleep Singh and became Maharani Ba ...

, the daughter of a German merchant and Ethiopian concubine, whom American Presbyterian missionaries had educated in Cairo. Lady Login tried to find a suitable European noble to become Gowramma's husband, but Gowramma married Lt. Col. John Campbell, who was 30 years older. Login died in

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in 1904. She left memoirs that offer valuable descriptions of her life in India and her interactions with the young Duleep Singh.

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