Frederick Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts
Field Marshal Frederick Sleigh Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts, Bt, VC, KG, KP, GCB, OM, GCSI, GCIE, KStJ, PC (30 September 1832 – 14 November 1914) was one of the most distinguished commanders of the British Empire.
Roberts was Indian born, in Cawnpore (now Kanpur) Uttar Pradesh.[1] The son of a general from County Waterford in Ireland, he regarded himself as Anglo-Irish.[2]
He served in the Indian rebellion, the Expedition to Abyssinia and the Second Anglo-Afghan War before leading British Forces to success in the Second Boer War. He also became the last Commander-in-Chief of the Forces before the post was abolished in 1904.
Roberts was awarded the Victoria Cross for actions on 2 January 1858 at Khudaganj. The citation reads:
- "Lieutenant Roberts' gallantry has on every occasion been most marked".[3]
Few non-royal people in four centuries have been given a State Funeral in the United Kingdom. Roberts was one of them.
References [change]
- ↑ "Kipling and Lord Roberts". Kipling.org.uk. http://www.kipling.org.uk/rg_lordroberts_moore.htm. Retrieved 2011-05-29.
- ↑ Gifford, Don; Robert J. Seidman (2008). Ulysses annotated: notes for James Joyce's Ulysses. University of California Press. p. 438. ISBN 9780520253971. http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=fE9mkomQHEQC&pg=PA438&lpg=PA438&dq=Frederick+Sleigh+Roberts,+1st+Earl+Roberts+anglo-irish#v=onepage&q&f=false. Retrieved 2011-05-29.
- ↑ Robson, Brian 2008. Roberts, Frederick Sleigh, first Earl Roberts (1832–1914) in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. [1]
