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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.
Mar 13, 2023 · O’Dwyer was the Lieutenant Governor of Punjab when the Jallianwala Bagh massacre occurred in Amritsar on April 13, 1919. The massacre fuelled the momentum of the Indian freedom struggle as the country seethed at the butchery of the British government.
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for a coordinated revolt planned around May, on the lines of the 1857 revolt, at a time when British troops would have withdrawn to the hills for the summer.
But historians say though Col Dyer was the man on the spot, it was Sir Michael Francis O’Dwyer, the lieutenant governor of Punjab, who ordered the Jallianwala massacre.
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.
On March 13 1940, at Caxton Hall in London, Udham Singh, an Indian freedom fighter, killed Michael O'Dwyer who had approved Dyer's action and was believed to have been the main planner. Gandhi negated Udham Singh’s action and referred to it as an "act of insanity".
Apr 13, 2017 · A braveheart who sacrificed his life for his motherland, freedom fighter Udham Singh avenged the Jallianwala Bagh massacre by shooting Michael O'Dwyer. Here is the little-known story of this legend.
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.
