Claude Martin Wade

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Claude Martine Wade
Born(1794-04-03)3 April 1794
Bengal Presidency, British India
Died21 October 1861(1861-10-21) (aged 67)[1]
Bath, Somerset, England[1]
OccupationSoldier
SpouseJane Selina Nicholl[2]
Parent(s)Lt. Col. Joseph Wade and Maria Ross[2]

Khyber pass
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Career

Claude Martin Wade was born in 1794 to Joseph Wade and his wife in Bengal.[4] He was named after his godfather, Major General Claude Martin.[2] The said General died in 1800 leaving his immense fortune, in the manner of a childless man, to charity. Wade had two children. A son named, Claude Fitzroy Wade, a barrister, and a daughter, Ellen Maud Welman.

Wade was appointed a cadet in the

Maharaja Ranjit Singh.[1] Col. C. M. Wade, was able to win the confidence of Maharaja Ranjit Singh through mutual regard and understanding which greatly helped to change the relations between the two Governments from undisguised hostility to close friendship and accord.[3]

In the 1830s, the British decided to replace Dost Mohammad Khan by Shah Shuja on the Kabul throne.[3] A tripartite Treaty of 1838 was drafted between the British, Shah Shuja and Ranjit Singh. The Lahore ruler signed the treaty on 26 June 1838, but the Governor-General, Lord Auckland, before signing it sent the draft to Shah Shuja at Ludhiana through Macnaughten, Wade and Mackeson. The Shah objected to various articles, but he secured various assurances from the British Government, and on 17 July 1838, the mission left Ludhiana with the signed treaty. Shah Shuja raised his contingent of 6,000 at Ludhiana, and through the combined help of the British and the Sikhs he was placed on his ancestral throne on 7 August 1839.

Claude's special mission in 1838 to

Khyber pass.[1] In 1845 he married Jane Selina, eldest daughter of Captain Thomas Nicholl of the Bengal Horse Artillery.[2] She and their son Claude FitzRoy (barrister) survived him.[1][2] In 1848 he had his last appointment as political agent for the vast area of Malwa[1]

In 1839, Wade was knighted[5] and made a Companion of the Most Honorable Military Order of the Bath.[6]

See also

Claude Martin

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g The Gentleman's Magazine 1861 pub. F. Jefferies
  2. ^ a b c d e f Leslie. Stephen Dictionary of National Biography 1899 p412 He was named after Claude Martin
  3. ^ a b c d PunjabRevenue Archived 10 July 2007 at the Wayback Machine accessed July 2007
  4. ^ the eldest daughter of Lt-Col Robert Ross
  5. HMSO. 20 December 1839. p. 2655. Retrieved 24 November 2008.[dead link
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  6. HMSO. 20 December 1839. p. 2656. Retrieved 24 November 2008. [dead link
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Attribution

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Lee, Sidney, ed. (1899). "Wade, Claude Martine". Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 58. London: Smith, Elder & Co.

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