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{{Infobox person
| name = Claude Martine Wade
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| birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1794|4|3}}
| birth_place = [[Bengal]], British India
| death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|1861|10|21|1794|4|3}}<ref name=gent/>
| death_place = [[Bath, Somerset]], England<ref name=gent/>
| education =
| occupation = Soldier
| spouse = Jane Selina Nicholl<ref name="DNB" />
| parents = Lt. Col. Joseph Wade and Maria Ross<ref name="DNB" />
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[[Colonel]] '''Sir Claude Martine Wade''' [[Order of the Bath|CB]] (3 April 1794 – 21 October 1861) was a British soldier who was Agent to the Governor-General for the Affairs of the Punjab and North-West Frontier, 1823–1840.<ref name=punjab>[http://punjabrevenue.nic.in/gaz_ldh38.htm PunjabRevenue] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070710195506/http://punjabrevenue.nic.in/gaz_ldh38.htm |date=10 July 2007 }} accessed July 2007</ref> He managed relations between the British and important rulers in India such as [[Maharaja Ranjit Singh (Punjab)|Maharaja Ranjit Singh]] and [[Shuja Shah Durrani|Shah Shuja]], King of [[Afghanistan]]. He was one of the first to "force the [[Khyber pass]]."

==Career==
Claude Martin Wade was born in 1794 to Joseph Wade and his wife in [[Bengal]].<ref>the eldest daughter of Lt-Col Robert Ross</ref> He was named after his godfather, Major General [[Claude Martin]].<ref name=DNB>Leslie. Stephen ''[[Dictionary of National Biography]]'' 1899 p412 He was named after Claude Martin</ref> The said General died in 1800 leaving his immense fortune, in the manner of a childless man, to charity. Wade had two children. A son named, Claude Fitzroy Wade, a barrister, and a daughter, Ellen Maud Welman.

Wade was appointed a cadet in the [[Bengal army]] in 1809 and became an Ensign posted to the [[Bengal Native Infantry]] in 1812<ref name=DNB/> He served in [[Bundelkund]] in 1812, and in operations in [[Gwalior State|Sindia]] and [[Holkar]] in 1815. He fought in the [[Third Maratha War]] between 1817 and 1819. In 1823 he was diplomatic agent at [[Ludhiana]],<ref name=gent/> taking over from a Captain Murray<ref name=punjab/> In 1835, Claude was in charge of relations with [[Maharaja Ranjit Singh (Punjab)|Maharaja Ranjit Singh]].<ref name=gent>[[The Gentleman's Magazine]] 1861 pub. F. Jefferies</ref> Col. C. M. Wade, was able to win the confidence of Maharaja Ranjit Singh through mutual regard and understanding which greatly helped to change the relations between the two Governments from undisguised hostility to close friendship and accord.<ref name=punjab/>

In the 1830s, the British decided to replace [[Dost Mohammad Khan]] by [[Shah Shujah Durrani|Shah Shuja]] on the [[Kabul]] throne.<ref name=punjab/> A tripartite Treaty of 1838 was drafted between the British, [[Shah Shujah Durrani|Shah Shuja]] and Ranjit Singh. The Lahore ruler signed the treaty on 26 June 1838, but the Governor-General, Lord Auckland, before signing it sent the draft to Shah Shuja at Ludhiana through Macnaughten, Wade and Mackeson. The Shah objected to various articles, but he secured various assurances from the British Government, and on 17 July 1838, the mission left Ludhiana with the signed treaty. Shah Shuja raised his contingent of 6,000 at Ludhiana, and through the combined help of the British and the Sikhs he was placed on his ancestral throne on 7 August 1839.

Claude's special mission in 1838 to [[Peshawur]] to join the Sikh army with [[Shahzada Timoor]] (Shah Shuja's son) meant he was (amongst) the first to force the [[Khyber pass]].<ref name=gent/> In 1845 he married Jane Selina, eldest daughter of Captain Thomas Nicholl of the Bengal Horse Artillery.<ref name="DNB" /> She and their son Claude FitzRoy (barrister) survived him.<ref name=gent/><ref name="DNB" /> In 1848 he had his last appointment as political agent for the vast area of [[Malwa]]<ref name=gent/>

In 1839, Wade was knighted<ref>{{cite news | title = Whitehall, December 11, 1839 | url = http://www.gazettes-online.co.uk/ViewPDF.aspx?pdf=19805&geotype=London&gpn=2655&type=ArchivedIssuePage | publisher = [[HMSO]] | location = London | page = 2655 | issue = 19805 | date = 20 December 1839 | accessdate = 24 November 2008}}{{dead link|date=August 2017|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref> and made a [[Order of the Bath|Companion of the Most Honorable Military Order of the Bath]].<ref>{{cite news | title = Downing Street, December 20, 1839 | url = http://www.gazettes-online.co.uk/ViewPDF.aspx?pdf=19805&geotype=London&gpn=2656&type=ArchivedIssuePage | publisher = [[HMSO]] | location = London | page = 2656 | issue = 19805 | date = 20 December 1839 | accessdate =24 November 2008 }}{{cbignore|bot=medic}} {{Dead link|date=October 2010|bot=H3llBot}}</ref>

==See also==
[[Claude Martin]]

==References==
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;Attribution
{{DNB|wstitle=Wade, Claude Martine|volume=58}}

==External links==
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