Memories of the Indian Mutiny.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume XIV, Issue 64, 21 October 1911, Page 1

Memories of the Indian Mutiny.

Memories of the Great Mutiny are recalled by the death of the Dowager Lady Outram, which took place at Pitlochry, Perthshire, recently. Lady Outram was of the advanced age of 99.

Born Margaret Clementina Anderson, she married in 1835 her cousin, Sir James Outram, the great Indian soldier whom Napier christened “Bayard of India” lor, his chivalry, and she survived his death by fortyeight years. She was one of the last survivors of that noble band of Englishwomen who passed through the horrors of the-Indian Mutiny. When it broke out her husband was absent in command of the British expedition to Persia. She was living at Aligarh when the 9th regiment of Nitive Infantry, which had previously borne a splendid character, cose in revolt. A plot had been devised by which all the Europeans were to have been murdered, but the mutineers, though they threatened their officers, did not kill them. Lady Outram was in imminent danger. She had to flee on horseback, aided by her son, with only the clothes in which she stood, and to make her way through the mutineers, who were then looting the cantonment, to Agra. At Agra the English ladies had to take refuge in the fort with a mere handful of men to protect them. Close at hand were the Gwalior native troops, who were known to be on the verge of mutiny, and to have expressed the intention of capturing Agra. But the serenity ard confidence and courage of women were never more gallantly displayed than amid the miseries.of this imprisonment and the haunting anxiety of the long wait for the that were to reconquer India. In that little band Lady Outram was conspicuous. Lady Outram maintained her faculties to the last, though she bad been in failing health for some months. In her 95th year she received a telegram of congratulation from the late KingEdward. Her memory was extraordinary, and covered six reigns. The family of Outram is one of the oldest and most honoured in Scotland, dating back to the fifteenth century.