BRYDON

William . b. London 9 Oct. 1811; a istant surgeon Bengal army 9 July 1835, surgeon 14 Nov. 1849, retired 1 Nov. 1859; C.B. 16 Nov. 1858. d. West field, Ro shire 20 March 1873. Kaye’s History of war in Afghanistan , 3 ed. (1874) 389; I.L.N. lxii , 369 (1873), portrait ; J. McCarthy’s A history of our own times , new ed. (1882) i , 161–95, iii , 8. Note. —He was the one solitary individual of the 13000 soldiers and camp followers composing the army of General Elphinstone who was neither killed nor taken prisoner in the terrible disaster of January 1842, it was also his singular fate to be shut up with Sir Henry Lawrence at Lucknow and to pa uninjured through that long and trying siege. Mrs. Thompson-Butler painted a portrait of him appearing under the walls of Jellalabad in her picture “Remnant of an army” exhibited at Royal Academy 1881 and engraved 1883.