Dictionary of Indian Biography/Chamberlain, Sir Neville Bowles
CHAMBERLAIN, SIR NEVILLE BOWLES (1820–1902)
Field Marshal : second son of Sir Henry Orlando Chamberlain, first Baronet : born 1820 : educated for a short time at Woolwich : at 17 entered the Bengal Army: in the first Afghan war was with Nott's force : at the occupation of Kandahar, at Ghazni, Kabul and Istalif : constantly wounded : was in the Governor-General's bodyguard : in the Gwalior campaign, D.A.Q.M.G. : at Maharajpur : in the second Sikh war, at Chilianwala and Gujarat : complimented by the C. in C. for personal gallantry : Commandant of Panjab Military Police : Military Secretary to the Panjab Government : Commandant of the Panjab Frontier Force : commanded several expeditions against the frontier tribes : in the mutiny of 1857 was in charge of the movable column of the Panjab until he became Adjutant-General of the Army at Delhi, and Brig-General : severely wounded there and disabled : C.B. and A.D.C. to Queen Victoria : commanded operations against the Waziris : K.C.B. : commanded in the Umbeyla campaign in 1863, until severely wounded when personally leading an assault of a difficult position : Maj-General : G.C.S.I., 1873 : G.C.B., 1875 : commanded the Madras Army, 1876–81 : in 1878 selected, by Lord Lytton, to lead a special mission to the Amir Shir Ali : the stopping of the mission at Ali Masjid was the immediate ground of the second Afghan war the was personally in harmony with Lord Lawrence's frontier policy : Military-Member of Supreme Council, Nov. 1878– Jan. 1879 : retired, 1881 : severely criticised the policy of part of the Boer war, 1899–1902 : Field Marshal in 1900 : died Feb. 17, 1902.