Dictionary of Indian Biography/Braddon, Sir Edward Nicholas Coventry
BRADDON, SIR EDWARD NICHOLAS COVENTRY (1829–1904)
Son of Henry Braddon, and brother of Miss Braddon the novelist: went out to India in 1847 to join the mercantile house of Bagshaw and Co., in Calcutta, but preferred work in the Mofussil: while he was employed on the E.I. Railway, the Sonthal rebellion of 1855 broke out, in which he rendered such excellent service that he was appointed an Assistant Commissioner in the Sonthal Parganas: during the mutiny he served in the Volunteer force under Sir George Yule, Commissioner of Bhagalpur, and, after the mutiny, on that officer's invitation, joined the Oudh Commission, where he remained until Oudh was amalgamated with the N.W.P. in 1877: resigned the Service and went to Tasmania, where he rose to be Premier and Agent-General for Tasmania in London: K.C.M.G., 1891: published Life in India, and Thirty Years of Shikar, in 1895: died Feb. 3, 1904.