Lieutenant-General Sir James Outram, 1st Baronet (29 January 1803 – 11 March 1863) was a British general who fought in the Indian Rebellion of 1857.

Mar 7, 2025 · Sir James Outram, 1st Baronet was an English general and political officer in India known, because of his reputation for chivalry, as “the Bayard of India” (after the 16th-century French soldier Pierre Terrail, Seigneur de Bayard).

Mar 11, 2011 · Sir James Outram, Baronet, is buried in the nave of Westminster Abbey. He was the second son of Benjamin Outram (d.1805) and his wife Margaret (Anderson) and was born at Butterley Hall in Derbyshire on 29th January 1803. His widowed mother moved the family to Aberdeen where James was educated.

James Outram (1803–63) was a British East India Company Army officer who became a national hero after his successful campaign at Lucknow during the Indian Rebellion of 1857.

Jan 9, 2023 · Lieutenant-General Sir James Outram, 1st Baronet (29 January 1803 – 11 March 1863) was a British general who fought in the Indian Rebellion of 1857. Quick Facts Nickname (s), Born ...

Jun 14, 2012 · James Outram (1803-63) was a British East India Company Army officer who became a national hero after his successful campaign at Lucknow during the Indian Rebellion of 1857.

James Outram: A Biography Published online: 05 May 2013 Print publication: 14 June 2012, pp 339-380 First published in: 1880; Chapter; Get access

SIR JAMES OUTRAM (1803-1863), English general, and one of the heroes of the Indian Mutiny, was the son of Benjamin Outram of Butterley Hall, Derbyshire, civil engineer, and was. born on the 29th of January 1803. His father died in 1805,. and his mother, a daughter of Dr James Anderson, the Scottish writer on agriculture, removed in 1810 to ...

Lieutenant General Sir James Outram, 1st Baronet GCB KSI (1803-1863) was a British soldier who went to India in 1819 as an ensign in the 4th Bombay Native Infantry. He was made a lieutenant in the Grenadier Regiment of Bombay Native Infantry then transferred to the 12th Bombay Native Infantry.

Born at Butterley Hall Derbyshire on the 29th January 1803 Sir James Outram was to became best known as the defender of Lucknow in the Indian Mutiny but he was also a gifted political agent and big game hunter. Winning a cadetship at the age of …