Way to Glory: the biography of General Henry Havelock
By John Pollock
Christian Focus Publications. 304 pages. £6.99
ISBN 185 792 245 X
Unlike General Gordon, whose biography John Pollock completed in 1993, Havelock was an eminent Victorian whose reputation did not suffer at the hands of Lytton Strachey. If his name is not well-known today, it is beyond question that his fame after the relief of Lucknow was prolific.
Havelock's statue stands next to Nelson's Column in Trafalgar Square, and most towns and cities in England have a street or gardens named after him. When news of his death reached England, Queen Victoria stated that she felt she had lost a brother (although she had never met him!) In New York and Boston flags flew at half-mast on government buildings and on shipping.
