Roberts, Lord, born at Cawnpore, educated in England; entered the Bengal Artillery in 1851; served throughout the Indian Mutiny, commanded in the Afghan War, and achieved a brilliant series of successes, which were rewarded with honours on his return to England; was made commander-in-chief of the Madras army in 1881, commander-in-chief in India in 1885, and commander of the forces in Ireland in 1895; (b. 1832).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Roberts, David * Robertson, Frederick William