Polehampton Rev Henry (2 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Rare. FFEP has inscription excised but signature of (Rev) Thomas S Polehampton and date (Feb 1860) remains. The title page lists editors as Rev Edward Polehampton and Rev Thomas Stedman Polehampton but the first is deleted by a pencil line. Throughout there are occasional pencil annotations. It is postulated that this is a copy reviewed by Rev Thomas S Polehampton. A rear blank has hand-written text (appears to be Thomas Polehampton) describing a monument to Henry Stedman Polehampton. Decorated leather boards with gilt lettering to spine. All edges gilt. Boards are generally in good order, just a little shelfwear. Corners are bumped, edges are worn. Spine has 5 raised bands and heavy gilt decoration. Textblock is a little foxed, mostly to the early/late pages. Pagination: xii, 440 pp. Additional photos are available upon request. When securely packed this item will weigh in the region of 671g. Unless specifically mentioned, all our books are photographed so you can see what you are buying. ABE may, however, display a stock image whilst processing ours. (YBP Ref: 033391:1-J1) Size: 12mo - over 63/4" - 73/4" tall Language: ENG 671 G. Signed by Editor. Book.

1st Ed. xii + 440pp. Frontis., 3 plates. From the Library of Professor Malcolm Yapp, light age toning, blind embossed purple cloth, spine worn and chipped, some fraying to extremities. Henry Stedman Polehampton (18241857), East India Company chaplain. '. In May 1857, when the uprising burst upon Lucknow, the Polehamptons took refuge within the residency; here he baptized his only convert, a servant named Baboo, who later invited certain death by volunteering to leave the residency in search of information. During the siege Emmie worked as a nurse in the residency's putrid hospital, for which she was commended in Brigadier Inglis's dispatch of 26 September 1857. Polehampton too was kept busy comforting the dying and burying the dead until he was wounded by gunfire on 8 July. On 20 July, a few days after gingerly resuming his duties, he died in the hospital of cholera and was buried in the residency garden. Emmie survived the siege . [and took up his diary] . In 1858 his brothers published A Memoir, Letters, and Diary of the Rev. Henry S. Polehampton, M.A., which was composed chiefly of extracts from his journal and letters home. The lettersfresh, engaging, hopeful, and full of anecdoteoffer insight into the attitudes of an educated, well-meaning imperial novice. They also stand as proof of the naïvety and political complacency of many Britons in India in the years immediately preceding the mutiny.' US$295.