John Laird Mair Lawrence, 1st Baron Lawrence,, known as Sir John Lawrence, Bt., between 1858 and 1869, was a prominent British Imperial statesman and served as the Viceroy of India from 1864 to 1869.
John Laird Mair Lawrence, 1st Baron Lawrence in 1860s
Sir John Lawrence as Viceroy of India, sitting middle, with his Executive Council members and Secretaries
Bust of Lawrence in Westminster Abbey
Second Anglo-Sikh war
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The second Anglo-Sikh war was a military conflict between the Sikh Empire and the East India Company which took place from 1848 to 1849. It resulted in the fall of the Sikh Empire, and the annexation of the Punjab and what subsequently became the North-West Frontier Province, by the East India Company.
The Battle of Gujrat, the most decisive battle of the second Anglo-Sikh war