ÿþ<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>AGNEW PATRICK ALEXANDER VANS (1822-1848)</TITLE> <style type="text/css"> .BODY { background-color: #EAF1F7; background-image: url('images/gtbh.jpg'); background-repeat: no-repeat; background-attachment: fixed; background-position: center; color: #0066CC;} .C1{text-align: justify;color: #0066CC;FONT-size: SMALL;FONT-family: Tahoma;} .BIB{text-align: center;color: #000099;FONT-size: SMALL;FONT-family: Tahoma;} .CONT{text-align: right;color: #FF0000;FONT-size: SMALL;FONT-family: Tahoma;} </style><META NAME="keywords" CONTENT="AGNEW,PATRICK,ALEXANDER,VANS,Person,Person"> <META http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></HEAD> <BODY class="BODY" oncontextmenu="return false" ondragstart="return false" onselectstart="return false"> <FONT ALIGN="JUSTIFY" FACE="Tahoma"> <p class="C1">&#65279AGNEW, PATRICK ALEXANDER VANS (1822-1848), a civil servant under the East India Company. He was the son of Lt-Col Patrick Vans Agnew, an East India Company director. Agnew joined the Bengal civil service in March 1841. In 1842, he became assistant to the commissioner of Delhi division. In December 1845, he was appointed assistant to Major George Broadfoot, the superintendent of the cis-Sutlej states. He was present at the battle of Sabhr&#257o&#7749 in 1846. In April 1848, he was sent by the British resident at Lahore, the capital of the Sikh kingdom of the Punjab, to Mult&#257n to take over the government of that province from D&#299w&#257n M&#363l R&#257j who had resigned. He was accompanied by Lt William Anderson, of the Bengal army, the new governor-designate K&#257hn Si&#7749gh, and an escort of Sikh troops from Lahore. The party reached Mult&#257n on 17 April 1848. D&#299w&#257n M&#363l R&#257j called on them the following day, but a dispute arose as Agnew demanded that accounts for the preceding six years be produced. On 19 April, the two English officers were taken round the fort and the various establishments. As they were returning to their camp, both Agnew and Anderson were attacked and wounded by a retainer of D&#299w&#257n M&#363l R&#257j. Soon afterwards, M&#363l R&#257j's troops rose in arms and took him prisoner, thus preventing him from visiting the wounded officers in the British camp at the &#298dg&#257h.</p> <p class="C1">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The Mult&#257n troops called a council of war on 20 April and issued proclamations in the name of M&#363l R&#257j, inviting the people to rise against the British. The same day, the Sikh escort from Lahore rebelled. K&#257hn Si&#7749gh made terms for himself. In the evening both Agnew and Anderson were killed at the &#298dg&#257h.</p> </font> <p class="BIB"> BIBLIOGRAPHY<p class="C1"><ol class="C1"><li class="C1"> Bal, S. S. , <i>British Policy Towards the Panjab, 1844-49</i>. Calcutta, 1971<BR> <li class="C1"> Kohli, Sita Ram, <i>Trial of Diwan Mul Raj</i>. Patiala, 1971<BR> <li class="C1"> Edwardes, Herbert, <i>A Year on the Punjab Frontier in 1848-49</i>. London, 1851<BR> </ol><p class="CONT">Har&#299 R&#257m Gupta<br></p><BR> </font> <img src="counter.aspx" width="1px" height="1px" alt=""> </HTML></BODY>