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What was the position of Sir Henry Havelock-Allan, 1st Baronet from 1874 to Apr 1881?
Sir Henry Havelock-Allan , 1st Baronet Lieutenant General Sir Henry Marshman Havelock-Allan , 1st Baronet ( 6 August 1830 – 30 December 1897 ) was a British soldier and politician . Allan in the surname was added in March 1880 . Early life . Havelock was born in Cawnpore , India on 6 August 1830 , the son of Major General Sir Henry Havelock and his wife , Hannah née Marshman , the daughter of the missionaries Joshua and Hannah Marshman . Military career . Havelock was commissioned as an Ensign in the 39th Regiment of Foot in March 1846 , and joined the Regiment in India . Moving to the 86th Foot as a Lieutenant in June 1848 , he transferred to the 10th Regiment of Foot in February 1852 . He served in the Persian campaign of 1856–57 , and was back in India at the outbreak of the Indian Mutiny in May 1857 . On 16 July 1857 at Cawnpore , the 64th Regiment had suffered badly under artillery fire . When the enemy was seen rallying their last 24-pounder , the order was given to advance , and Havelock immediately placed himself , on his horse , in front of the centre of the 64th , opposite the muzzle of the gun and moved on at a foot pace , in the face of shot and grape fired by the enemy . The advance went steadily on , led by Havelock and finally the gun was rushed and taken by the 64th . For this deed , Havelock was awarded the Victoria Cross . On 25 September 1857 he was badly wounded in the Siege of Lucknow . On returning to England in 1860 , Havelock joined his regiment , now the 18th Foot ( Royal Irish Regiment ) , at Shorncliffe . He became deputy assistant adjutant-general at Aldershot on 1 October 1861 . He was posted with the 18th Foot to New Zealand in August 1863 , where he was appointed deputy assistant quartermaster-general and served under Major General Duncan Cameron from 1863 to 1864 . He participated in the Invasion of Waikato , being present at Rangiriri , Waiari , Paterangi , Rangiawhia , and at the siege and capture of Orakau . For his services during this period , he was Mentioned in Despatches , promoted to major on 28 June 1864 , and was made a Companion of the Order of the Bath in August 1866 . In March 1867 Havelock was posted to Canada , where he served as assistant quartermaster-general for two years . He then spent three years in Dublin performing the same role . In 1870 he was given leave of absence to act as a War correspondent in the Franco-Prussian War , being present at the Battle of Sedan . In 1877 , he attended the Russo-Turkish War in the same capacity . He was promoted to colonel on 17 June 1868 , and major general on 18 March 1878 . Ill health forced Havelock to retire from the active list on 9 December 1881 , with the honorary rank of lieutenant general . However , when the Anglo-Egyptian War broke out the following year , he made his way to the British headquarters in Ismaïlia telling a war correspondent : Dont for goodness sake mention me in your despatches , for my wife thinks Im somewhere on the Riviera , but I could not resist coming here to see the fun . He petitioned the British commander , Sir Garnet Wolseley , for a role on the staff ; but Wolseley refused , writing to his wife : Nonetheless , Havelock was able to see action at the battles of Kassassin and Tel el-Kebir , where he supposedly led a charge armed with nothing but a riding crop . Baronetcy and Member of Parliament . In 1858 Havelock was granted the baronetcy , originally intended for his father ( who died a year earlier ) , and he and his mother were granted a parliamentary pension of £1,000 a year . He later went to England and became a Member of Parliament in 1874 for his fathers birth-town of Sunderland until 1881 . He inherited Blackwell Grange , the former property of his cousin Robert Allan , changed his surname to Havelock-Allan , ( as was required by the will of the latter ) and became an MP for South East Durham from 1885 to 1892 . Death . Havelock was re-elected in 1895 and also became Colonel of the Royal Irish Regiment , stationed in India , that year . It was there that he was killed by Afridi clansmen on the Afghanistan side of the Khyber Pass in 1897 and he was later buried in Rawalpindi . Works . In 1867 , Havelock published his Three Main Military Questions of the Day , which addressed the issues of a Home Reserve Army , improved economic military tenure of India and the effects of breechloading arms on cavalry .