Henry Wylie Norman


Field Marshal Sir Henry Wylie Norman GCB GCMG CIE was a senior Indian Army officer and colonial administrator. He served in the Second AngloSikh War, the campaign against the Kohat Pass Afridis, the suppression of the Santhal rebellion, and the suppression of the Indian Mutiny. He became military member of the Viceroys Council in 1870, in which role he maintained the policy of ensuring that the Indian Army were less well armed than British troops there to deter another mutiny. As a result, he became a member of the Council of India and in his later years he became Governor of Jamaica and then Governor of Queensland.

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