Indian Mutiny interest. Autobiography of the Indian career of F. M. Sir Donald Stewart.

Field Marshal Sir Donald Stewart, G.C.B., G.C.S.I., C.I.E. An  account of his life, mainly in his own words. Edited by G. R. Elsmie, C.S.I., joint author of Lumsden of the Guides. John Murray [London] 1905 1st edition.

2 folding sketch maps & 1 other, 30 illustrations, xxii.482pp, 6pp ads. Original blue cloth gilt, the field marshal’s arms gilt blocked to front board, top edges gilt, a little wear without loss to head and tail of spine but a very clean copy, printed label to front free endpaper With the Compliments of The Lord Mount Stephen, contemporary ownership signature dated 1903 to same page A. U. Cowie, Dufftown, 1903. Internally complete and clean apart from a dirty mark to one map [shown in an illustration]. Over 100 pages are devoted to Stewart’s involvement in the Indian Mutiny. He rode with despatches through the enemy lines from Agra to Delhi, was DAAG of the Delhi Field Force during the siege, was at the Relief of Lucknow, and in operations in Bundelkund. He had begun his career in the 9th Bengal Native Infantry and before and after the Mutiny served in Peshawar (where he commanded the district in 1867), was Superintendent of the Andaman Islands 1871-5, commanded Lahore Division 1875-8, commanded the Southern Army during the Second Afghan War (over 150pp on this period). Ladendorf 263. The recipient of the inscription is Sir Donald Campbell Macnabb, born 1832, who served in the ICS in the Punjab and at the beginning of the Mutiny he helped to raise a considerable body of Irregular Horse at Sharpur and sent it to Delhi. From 1875-81 he was Commissioner of Rawal Pindi and Peshawar jul25/1

Stewart was Superintendent of the Andaman Islands when the Viceroy Lord Mayo was assassinated there in 1872. Items connected with that sad event will be found elsewhere on the website.