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{{Infobox military person<br />
|name= Sir Edward Lugard<br />
|image= General Sir Edward Lugard.jpg<br />
|caption= Sir Edward Lugard<br />
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|birth_date= {{birth date|1810|05|08|df=yes}}<br />
|death_date= {{death date and age|1898|10|31|1810|05|08|df=yes}}<br />
|birth_place= [[London]], England<br />
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|allegiance= {{flag|United Kingdom}}<br />
|branch= {{army|United Kingdom}}<br />
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|rank= [[General (United Kingdom)|General]]<br />
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|commands= [[Adjutant-General (India)|Adjutant-General in India]] (1857–58)<br/>2nd Division (1857)<br />
|battles= [[First Anglo-Afghan War|First Afghan War]]<br/>[[First Anglo-Sikh War|First Sikh War]]<br/>[[Second Anglo-Sikh War|Second Sikh War]]<br/>[[Anglo-Persian War|Persian campaign]]<br/>[[Indian Rebellion of 1857|Indian Rebellion]]<ref>Lugard's campaigns are shown on his memorial plaque in All Saints Church, Kingston upon Thames.</ref><br />
|awards= [[Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath]]<br />
|relations = [[Frederick Lugard, 1st Baron Lugard|Frederick Lugard]] (nephew)<br />
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[[File:General Sir Edward Lugard plaque, All Saints Church, Kingston upon Thames.jpg|right|thumb|305px|Memorial plaque to Lugard in [[All Saints Church, Kingston upon Thames]], Surrey]]<br />
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'''Sir Edward Lugard''' {{postnominals|country=GBR|size=100%|sep=,|GCB|PC}} (8 May 1810 – 31 October 1898) was a [[British Army]] officer who served as [[Adjutant-General (India)|Adjutant-General in India]] (1857–58) and later as Permanent [[Under-Secretary of State for War]] (1861–71) at the [[War Office]].<br />
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==Early life==<br />
Lugard was son of Captain John Lugard (1761–1843), of the [[6th (Inniskilling) Dragoons]], [[Adjutant]] and Secretary at the [[Duke of York's Royal Military School|Duke of York's Military Asylum]], [[Chelsea, London|Chelsea]], and his wife Jane Llewellyn Trewman (c. 1781–1861), daughter of Robert Trewman (1738/9–1802), of [[Exeter]], [[Devon]], a printer and proprietor of [[Trewman's Exeter Flying Post]], of a family recorded at Exeter since the 1500s.<ref>{{Cite ODNB|url=https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-61031|title=Trewman, Robert (1738/9–1802), printer and newspaper proprietor|year=2004|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/61031}}</ref> Edward Lugard's elder brother, Rev. Frederick Grueber Lugard, vicar of [[Norton-juxta-Kempsey]], [[Worcester, England|Worcester]], was father of the explorer and colonial administrator [[Frederick Lugard, 1st Baron Lugard]].<ref name="auto">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</ref><br />
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==Military career==<br />
Commissioned as an [[Ensign (rank)#United Kingdom|Ensign]] in the [[31st (Huntingdonshire) Regiment of Foot|31st Regiment of Foot]] in August 1828,<ref>{{London Gazette|nolink=y|issue=18495|page=1534|date=12 August 1828}}</ref> Lugard fought in the [[Battle of Kabul (1842)|Battle of Kabul]] in 1842 during the [[First Anglo-Afghan War]]. He then served in the [[First Anglo-Sikh War|First Sikh War]] (1845–46), taking part in the battles of [[Battle of Mudki|Moodkee]], [[Battle of Aliwal|Aliwal]] and [[Battle of Sobraon|Sobraon]], later also serving in the [[Second Anglo-Sikh War|Second Sikh War]] (1848–49).<ref name=bio>{{cite web|url=http://www.queensroyalsurreys.org.uk/colonels_and_co/colonels/east-surrey-regiment/general-sir-edward-lugard.shtml|title=General The Rt Hon Sir Edward Lugard GCB 1881 – 1898|publisher=Queen's Royal Surreys|access-date=1 March 2020}}</ref> 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 [[Anglo-Persian War|Persian campaign]] (1856–57),<ref name=bio/> and [[Adjutant-General (India)|Adjutant-General in India]] from July 1857.<ref>{{London Gazette|nolink=y|issue=22051|page=3426|date=13 October 1857}}</ref> He commanded the 2nd Division at the [[Capture of Lucknow]] in 1858 during the [[Indian Rebellion of 1857|Indian Rebellion]],<ref name=bio/> and became a Knight Commander of the [[Order of the Bath]] in January 1858.<ref>{{London Gazette|nolink=y|issue=22086|page=309|date=22 January 1858}}</ref><br />
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After nearly three decades in India, Lugard returned to the United Kingdom in 1859 where he served as Permanent [[Under-Secretary of State for War]] at the [[War Office]] from 1861 to 1871.<ref name=bio/> Advanced to Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath in March 1867,<ref>{{London Gazette|nolink=y|issue=23230|page=1724|date=15 March 1867}}</ref> he became a [[Privy Council of the United Kingdom|Privy Councillor]] in November 1871<ref>{{London Gazette|nolink=y|issue=23793|page=4503|date=7 November 1871}}</ref> and was promoted to the rank of [[General (United Kingdom)|General]] in November 1872.<ref>{{London Gazette|nolink=y|issue=23915|page=5109|date=1 November 1872}}</ref> <br />
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In 1862 he was appointed [[Colonel (United Kingdom)#Colonel of the Regiment|Colonel]] of the [[31st (Huntingdonshire) Regiment of Foot]], which amalgamated in 1881 with the 70th Foot to form the [[East Surrey Regiment]], after which he was Colonel of the 1st Battalion of the new regiment until his death in 1898, aged 88.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.regiments.org/regiments/uk/inf/031ESurr.htm|title=East Surrey Regiment |publisher=Regiments.org |access-date=27 February 2016 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060104202721/http://www.regiments.org/regiments/uk/inf/031ESurr.htm |archive-date=15 July 2006 }}</ref><br />
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There is a memorial plaque to Lugard in [[All Saints Church, Kingston upon Thames]], Surrey.<ref name=bio/><br />
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==Personal life==<br />
In 1837, Lugard married Isabella Mowbray Hart (d. 1868), daughter of Henry Hart, [[Doctor of Medicine|MD]], of [[Bishopwearmouth]], [[County Durham]]; he married secondly, in 1871, Martha (1846–1922), daughter of Joseph Fullbrook, of [[Chelsea, London|Chelsea]], and a cousin of the distinguished soldier Major-General [[Charles Fullbrook-Leggatt]].<ref name="auto"/><br />
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