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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for a coordinated revolt planned around May, on the lines of the 1857 revolt, at a time when British troops would have withdrawn to the hills for the summer.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Jun 25, 2019 · On March 13, 1940, at a meeting of the East India Association at Caxton Hall in London, Udham Singh murdered Sir Michael O’Dwyer, who was Lieutenant Governor of the Punjab at the time of the...
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...
Historians say though Brig-Gen Dyer was the man on the spot, it was Sir Michel Francis O’Dwyer, the lieutenant governor of Punjab, who ordered the Jallianwala massacre.
