Edward Lugard joined the
War Department after a successful career in the British Army. He was made Secretary for
Military Correspondence in
February 1859, and held the position of Permanent Under-Secretary of State for War from
1861 to 1871, leaving that post when he was appointed to the
Privy Council. He was
knighted in
1857 after serving as
Chief of the Staff on the Persian Expedition,
and promoted to the rank of Major
General following his
command of a Division at the capture of Lucknow
in the Indian Mutiny campaign. He was promoted to General in
1872, while he was President of the Army Purchase Commission. He died on
31 October 1898
at the age of eighty-eight.