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{{Infobox military person
| name = Sir Edward Stedman
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| birth_date = {{birth date|1842|07|27|df=yes}}
| birth_place = [[Bloomsbury]], Middlesex
| death_date = {{death date and age|1914|06|25|1842|07|27|df=yes}}
| death_place = [[Arundel]], Sussex
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| allegiance = United Kingdom
| branch = [[British Indian Army]]
| serviceyears = 1860–1907
| rank = [[General (United Kingdom)|General]]
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| commands = [[3 Gorkha Rifles]]
| battles = [[Third Anglo-Burmese War]]<br/>[[Chitral Expedition]]
| awards = [[Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath]]<br/>[[Knight Commander of the Order of the Indian Empire]]<br/>[[Mentioned in Despatches]]
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[[General (United Kingdom)|General]] '''Sir Edward Stedman''', {{postnominals|country=GBR|size=100%|sep=,|GCB|KCIE}} (27 July 1842 – 25 June 1914) was a senior [[British Indian Army]] officer who served as [[Military Secretary to the India Office]] from 1899 to 1907.<ref name="times">{{cite news |title=A Notable Indian General – The Late Sir Edward Stedman |work=[[The Times]] |date=3 July 1914 |page= 12}}</ref>

==Military career==
Stedman was [[Officer (armed forces)|commissioned]] into the [[Bengal Staff Corps]] in 1860.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=23431|page=5386|date=13 October 1868}}</ref> By 1885 he was appointed [[Commanding Officer]] of the [[3 Gorkha Rifles]] and was strongly commended for his leadership in [[Upper Burma]] by Major General [[George White (British Army officer)|Sir George Stuart White]], Commanding the Upper Burma Field Force.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=25735|page=4760|date=2 September 1887}}</ref> Later that year Stedman was made Inspector-General of Police in Upper Burma.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=25761|page=6373|date=25 November 1887}}</ref>

Stedman joined the [[Chitral Expedition]] in 1895 as second-in-command and General of Communications.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=26680|page=6176|date=15 November 1895}}</ref> He was appointed [[Military Secretary to the India Office]] in 1899.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=YSK8AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA265&lpg=PA265&dq=%22General+Sir+John+Coleridge%22&source=bl&ots=NwVnNcTTdI&sig=IIYH-9gPoMiezd7vY-OKjRXD7m4&hl=en&ei=-8_mS5eSKJamsQb48fmcBg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5&ved=0CCcQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=%22General%20Sir%20John%20Coleridge%22&f=false The military in British India: the development of British Land Forces in South Asia, 1600–1947 By T. A. Heathcote, Page265] Manchester University Press, 1995, {{ISBN|978-0-7190-3570-8}}</ref>

Stedman was appointed a [[Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath]] in the [[1902 Coronation Honours]] list published on 26 June 1902,<ref>{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=The Coronation Honours |date=26 June 1902 |page=5 |issue=36804}}</ref><ref>{{London Gazette |issue=27448 |date=26 June 1902|page=4190|supp=y}}</ref> and invested as such by King [[Edward VII]] at [[Buckingham Palace]] on 24 October.<ref>{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Court Circular |date=25 October 1902 |page=8 |issue=36908}}</ref> Ha was promoted to a [[Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath]] on 19 June 1911.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=28505|page=4589|date=16 June 1911}}</ref>

Stedman was also [[Colonel]] of the [[23rd Sikh Pioneers]].<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=27676|page=3090|date=13 May 1904}}</ref>

==References==
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