Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886/Edwardes, (Sir) Herbert Benjamin

by Joseph Foster

Edwardes, (Sir) Herbert Benjamin, k.c.b., k.c.s.i., created D.C.L. 12 June, 1850 (then a major, c.b.), wounded at the battle of Moodkee in tec first Sikh war 18 Dec., 1845, took part in the battle of Sobraon 10 Feb. following, in the siege and capture of Mooltan Jan., 1849, commissioner of the Peshawur frontier 1853-9, K.C.B. 1860, LL.D. Cambridge 1860, commissioner of Umballa 1862-5, K.C.S.I. 1866, major-general Indian army 1868 (2nd son of Rev. Benjamin Edwardes, rector of Frodesley, before named) died 23 Dec., 1868.