Outram, Sir James, 1st Baronet

Outram, Sir James, 1st Baronet

▪ British general
born Jan. 29, 1803, near Butterley, Derbyshire, Eng.
died March 11, 1863, Pau, France
 English general and Indian political officer known, because of his reputation for chivalry, as “the Bayard of India” (after the 16th-century French soldier Pierre Terrail, Seigneur de Bayard).

      Outram was educated at Marischal College, Aberdeen, Scot., and went to Bombay as a cadet in 1819. After serving with distinction in the early stages of the First Afghan War (1839–42), he was appointed political agent in Sindh. Though dismissed on the appointment to Sindh of Sir Charles Napier, he persuaded the independent chieftains of Sindh to accept a harsh new treaty. According to its terms his prize money amounted to 30,000 rupees, which he gave to charitable institutions in India because he considered the war unjust. He served as resident at Baroda and Lucknow, where he carried out the annexation of the state of Oudh in 1856. He successfully commanded an expedition against Iran in 1857 and was created lieutenant general.

      At the outbreak of the Indian Mutiny of 1857 he was recalled from Iran, given command of two divisions, and resumed his commissionership of Oudh. During the mutiny he was appointed to succeed Sir Henry Havelock at Cawnpore (Kānpur), but instead he magnanimously asked to serve under Havelock during the first siege of that city. In 1858 he was awarded a baronetcy and appointed military member of the governor-general's council. In 1860 he returned to England. Outram is buried in Westminster Abbey, and a full-length bronze figure of him stands on the Thames Embankment near Charing Cross, London.

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