Havelock, Henry

Henry (1795-1857), a major-general in the East India service. He was a native of Durham, England. He entered the eastern service as early as 1823. During the Indian mutiny of 1856-57 he commanded a column including the seventyeighth regiment of Highlanders. He fought a dozen sharp engagements, made forced marches, and was successful in retaking Cawnpur and in relieving Lucknow ere the garrison gave up. Whittier's stirring poem, The Pipes of Lucknow, gives Havelock due praise. Havelock died of dysentery two months and a day after raising the siege of Lucknow. His exploits were received at home with a storm of applause.

The British Parliament hastened to heap honor and rewards on him; then, learning of his untimely death, made his eldest son a baronet and settled a pension of $5,000 a year on his widow. A statue in Havelock's memory was erected by public subscription in Trafalgar Square, London. See Lucknow; Clive