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Sir Michael Francis O'Dwyer GCIE KCSI (28 April 1864 – 13 March 1940) was an Irish colonial officer in the Indian Civil Service (ICS) and later the Lieutenant Governor of Punjab, British India, between 1913 and 1919.
Apr 13, 2023 · Sir Michael O’Dwyer imposed martial rule in Lahore and Amritsar on April 11, but the order reached Amritsar only on April 14. He also sent Colonel Dyer, who was then holding the temporary rank of Brigadier General, from the Jalandhar cantonment to Amritsar.
The British Lieutenant-Governor of Punjab, Michael O'Dwyer, is said to have believed that these were the early and ill-concealed signs of a conspiracy for a coordinated revolt planned around May, on the lines of the 1857 revolt, at a time when British troops would have withdrawn to the hills for the summer.
Feb 7, 2021 · A man of many seeming contradictions, Sir Michael O’Dwyer – despite his unabashed imperialism – published several books critical of British actions in Ireland.
Oct 14, 2021 · On June 5, 1940 as the jury at the Central Criminal Court in Old Bailey found Udham Singh guilty of murdering General Michael O’Dwyer, the clerk turned around to Singh and asked if he had anything to say as to why the court should not give him the penalty of death according to the law.
Oct 5, 2023 · Sir Michael Francis O'Dwyer was a colonial officer in the Indian Civil Service (ICS). The Amritsar massacre occurred during his tenure as the Lieutenant Governor of Punjab in British India.
Freedom fighter Udham Singh, who was among those who were injured in the massacre, assasinated Michael O'Dwyer, the then lieutenant-governor of Punjab and belligerent apologist for Reginald Dyer,...
Apr 13, 2019 · Sir Michael O’Dwyer was lieutenant-governor of the Punjab at the time of the massacre. It took an assassin 21 years to track him down and shoot him at a public meeting in...
Apr 13, 2024 · After the passage of the draconian Rowlatt Act in March 1919, Punjab (like the rest of India) was on the boil. Protests spread across the province, and Michael O’Dwyer, then the Lieutenant Governor of Punjab, feared a large-scale resurrection — just like in 1857.
Apr 4, 2009 · Sir Michael O’Dwyer was assassinated in London in 1940 by a Sikh revolutionary, Udham Singh, who had been injured at Amritsar. He was duly hanged. Gandhi condemned his action as senseless, but in some quarters in India he was praised as a heroic martyr. India Empire.
