EGER (town of Austria)
EDWARDS, AMELIA ANN BLANDFORD EGER (town of Hungary)
EDWARDS, BELA BATES EGERIA
EDWARDS, BRYAN EGERTON, SIR PHILIP DE MALPAS GREY
EDWARDS, GEORGE EGG, AUGUSTUS LEOPOLD
EDWARDS, HENRY THOMAS EGG
EDWARDS, JONATHAN EGGENBERG, HANS ULRICH VON
EDWARDS, LEWIS EGGER, EMILE
EDWARDS, RICHARD EGGLESTON, EDWARD
EDWARDS, THOMAS CHARLES EGHAM
EDWARDSVILLE (Illinois, U.S.A.) EGIN
EDWARDSVILLE (Pennsylvania, U.S.A) EGLANTINE
EDWIN (king of Northumbria) EGLINTON, EARLS OF
EDWIN, JOHN EGMONT, EARLS OF
EDWY EGMONT LAMORAL
EECKHOUT, GERBRAND VAN DEN EGOISM
EEL EGORIEVSK
EFFENDI EGREMONT, EARLS OF.
EFFIGIES, MONUMENTAL EGREMONT
EGAN, PIERCE EGRESS
EGBO EGYPT
EGEDE, HANS EHRENBERG, CHRISTIAN GOTTFRIED
EGER, AQIBA EHRENBREITSTEIN

EDWARDES, SIR HERBERT BENJAMIN (1819-1868), English soldier-statesman in
India, was born at Frodesley in Shropshire on the 12th of November 1819.
His father was Benjamin Edwardes, rector of Frodesley, and his
grandfather Sir John Edwardes, baronet, eighth holder of a title
conferred on one of his ancestors by Charles I. in 1644. He was educated
at a private school and at King's College, London. Through the influence
of his uncle, Sir Henry Edwardes, he was nominated in 1840 to a
cadetship in the East India Company; and on his arrival in India, at the
beginning of 1841, he was posted as ensign in the 1st Bengal Fusiliers.
He remained with this regiment about five years, during which time he
mastered the lessons of his profession, obtained a good knowledge of
Hindustani, Hindi and Persian, and attracted attention by the political
and literary ability displayed in a series of letters which appeared in
the _Delhi Gazette_.

In November 1845, on the breaking out of the first Sikh War, Edwardes
was appointed aide-de-camp to Sir Hugh (afterwards Viscount) Gough, then
commander-in-chief in India. On the 18th of December he was severely
wounded at the battle of Mudki. He soon recovered, however, and fought
by the side of his chief at the decisive battle of Sobraon (February