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{{Infobox person
| honorific_prefix = Sir
| name = Edward Bosc Sladen
| native_name =
| image = Edward Bosc Sladen.jpg
| caption =
| birth_name =
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1831|11|20|df=y}}
| birth_place = [[Madras]], [[British India]]
| death_date = {{death date and age|1890|1|4|1831|11|20|df=y}}
| death_place = [[London]], [[England]]
| known_for =
| education = [[Oswestry School]]
| spouse = {{plainlist|
*{{marriage|Sophia Catherine Harrison|1861|1865|reason=died}}
*{{marriage|Katherine Jane Carew|1880}}
}}
| occupation = British army officer
| parents = [[Ramsey Sladen]] <br> Emma Bosc
| children = Edward Sydney Sladen<br>Marion Ethel Sladen<br>Gerald Carew Sladen
| relatives =
}}
'''Sir Edward Bosc Sladen''' (20{{nbsp}}November 1831{{snd}}4{{nbsp}}January 1890) was an [[British Indian Army|Indian Army]] officer who served in India and Burma. He organised a provisional government in [[Upper Burma]] and oversaw the surrender of [[King Thibaw]].

== Early life ==
Edward was born in [[Madras]], [[British India]] (today known as [[Chennai]]) on 20 November 1831. He was a son of Dr. Ramsey Sladen (1782–1861), an [[British East India Company|East India Company]] employee and his second wife, Emma Bosc (the daughter of Colonel Paul Bosc).<ref name="oxforddnb">{{cite ODNB |title=Sladen, Sir Edward Bosc (1827–1890), army and political officer in India |language=en|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/25711 |year=2004 }}</ref>

He attended [[Oswestry School]] in Shropshire.<ref name="Jones-Parry1897">{{cite book |last1=Jones-Parry |first1=Sydney Henry |title=An Old Soldier's Memories |date=1897 |publisher=Hurst and Blackett |page=27 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-g0MAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA27 |access-date=22 October 2019 |language=en}}</ref>

==Career==
He joined the East India Company on 14{{nbsp}}April 1849. He was posted in the 1st [[Madras fusiliers]] as a second lieutenant in September 1850. After seeing action in the [[Second Anglo-Burmese War]] at Pegu (now known as [[Bago, Myanmar]]) in December 1852 and again in January 1853, he became an assistant commissioner in Tenasserim (now known as the [[Tanintharyi Region]]) and was severely wounded in 1856-57 while fighting insurgent Karens and Shans in the Yunzalin District. He then moved back to mainland India and joined in the recapture of [[Lucknow]] from Indian soldiers in March 1858. He also took part in the Oudh campaign with Sir [[James Hope Grant]] and Sir [[Alfred Hastings Horsford]].

In 1866, he went to [[Mandalay]] as agent of the chief commissioner, and in August of that year had a narrow escape from a body of insurgents who had murdered three of the royal princes. During the disturbances that ensued he embarked nearly all the Europeans and other Christians at the Burmese capital on board a river steamer and brought them safely to [[Rangoon]], for which he received the thanks of the governor-general. The insurrection having been put down, he returned to Mandalay. In May 1867, he exerted his influence with the king to prevent the execution of three young princes, two of whom owed their lives to his intercession, the other having been beheaded before a reprieve arrived. Shortly afterwards he obtained the king's assent to a new treaty of commerce and extradition which was ratified by the governor-general on 26 November 1867.<ref name=odnb>{{cite book|title=Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, Volume 52|chapter=Sladen, Edward Bosc |author=Wheeler, SE|year=1897 |chapter-url=http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Sladen,_Edward_Bosc_%28DNB00%29|pages=366–367}}</ref>

From 1876 to 1885, Sladen was commissioner of the [[Rakhine State|Arakan division]] and in the latter year he accompanied the force sent against [[King Thibaw]], as chief political officer. In this capacity, on the arrival of the British troops at Mandalay, on 28 December 1885, he entered the royal palace, and received the king's submission. In a speech on 17 February 1886, the governor-general, [[Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava|Lord Dufferin]], made special mention of ‘Colonel Sladen, to whose courage and knowledge of the people we are so much indebted for the surrender of the king’.<ref name=odnb />

===Mission to China===
He then joined the Indian staff corps after the Madras fusiliers became a queen's regiment. In 1866 he was made chief commissioner in Mandalay. In one incident he saved the Europeans in the region from insurgents. In 1868 he headed a political mission to the Chinese frontier. This expedition started on 13{{nbsp}}January from Mandalay through Bhamo to Moulmein and then to Yunnan and returned only in September. Information collected on the route was published as the ''Official Narrative of the Expedition to China via Bhamo''. He wrote on the geography of the region in the Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society (Volume 15).<ref name=odnb /> In 1868, during a visit to [[Tengyue]] (known as Momien in the Shan language) in modern-day [[Yunnan Province]], China, Sladen procured a woodblock printed edition of the Chinese history of the town, which was brought back to England and deposited at the [[British Museum]], along with a number of artefacts from SW China and Burma.{{sfn|Anderson|Sladen|Browne|1876|p=191}}<ref>[https://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/search.aspx?people=136981&peoA=136981-3-9 British Museum Collection]</ref>

==Personal life==
In 1861, Sladen married Sophia Catherine Harrison (1842–1865), daughter of Richard Pryce Harrison, a Bengal civil servant, and
Harriette ([[née]] Cheek) Harrison. They had a son and a daughter:

* Edward Sydney Sladen (1862–1921), who was with the [[Monmouthshire Regiment|4th Battalion]] [[South Wales Borderers]], first as Capt., then Maj., and Lt. Col.<ref name="Wellington1906">{{cite book |last1=College (England) |first1=Wellington |last2=Berkshire |first2=Wellington College |last3=Bevir |first3=Joseph Louis |title=Wellington College Register: 1859-July 1905 |date=1906 |publisher=T. Hunt |page=281 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QvABAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA281 |access-date=22 October 2019 |language=en}}</ref>
* Marion Ethel Sladen (1863–1897), who married Joshua Fielden, son of [[Joshua Fielden (politician)|Joshua Fielden]] MP, in 1895.<ref name="Burke1898">{{cite book |last1=Burke |first1=Sir Bernard |title=A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain & Ireland |date=1898 |publisher=Harrison & Sons |page=514 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YUtNAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA514 |access-date=22 October 2019 |language=en}}</ref>

Sophia died in 1865 and, in 1880, Sladen married Katherine Jane Carew (1857–1934), daughter of Robert Russell Carew of Hertfordshire. They had a son:

* Brig. Gen. [[Gerald Carew Sladen]] [[Companion of the Order of the Bath|CB]] [[Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George|CMG]] [[Distinguished Service Order|DSO]] [[Military Cross|MC]] (1881–1930), who married Mabel Ursula Orr-Ewing, second daughter of [[Orr-Ewing baronets|Sir Archibald Orr-Ewing, 3rd Baronet]] of [[Ballikinrain]].

He was knighted on 26{{nbsp}}November 1886, and retired on 14{{nbsp}}April 1887, dying in London three years later in [[London]] on 4 January 1890.<ref name=odnb />

===Descendants===
Through his daughter Marion, he was a grandfather of [[Lionel Fielden]] (1896–1974), who was educated at [[Eton College|Eton]] and [[Brasenose College, Oxford]] before becoming a successful producer at the [[BBC]]. He was founder and controller of Broadcasting in India ([[All India Radio]]) and was a friend of [[Mahatma Gandhi]] and [[John Reith, 1st Baron Reith]].<ref name="wynyardwilkinson">{{cite web |title=An Unusual Indian Raj Silver Presentation Case with '10-inch' Shellac All India Radio Gramophone Record, Calcutta, 1940 |url=https://www.wynyardwilkinson.co.uk/product/an-unusual-indian-raj-silver-presentation-case-with-10-inch-shellac-all-india-radio-gramophone-record-calcutta-1940/ |website=www.wynyardwilkinson.co.uk |publisher=Wynyard Wilkinson |access-date=22 October 2019}}</ref> He owned [[Villa Massei]], a 16th-century hunting lodge and 60 acres estate in Massa Macinaia, near the ancient walled city of [[Lucca]], [[Italy]].<ref name=books>{{cite book|last=Fielden|first=Lionel|title=The Natural Bent|year=1960|publisher=Andre Deutsch|location=London}}</ref>

Through his son Gerald, he was a grandfather to Ruth Violet Sladen (1919–1978), who married Oliver Kintzing Wallop, [[Viscount Lymington]] (son of [[Gerard Wallop, 9th Earl of Portsmouth]]), and was the mother of [[Quentin Wallop, 10th Earl of Portsmouth]].<ref name="EarlPortsmouth">{{cite web |title=Portsmouth, Earl of (GB, 1743) |url=http://www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk/portsmouth1743.htm |website=www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk |publisher=Heraldic Media Limited |access-date=22 October 2019}}</ref> Gerald’s descendant Olivia Sladen married [[Henry FitzRoy, 12th Duke of Grafton]] (born 1978)<ref>[http://announcements.telegraph.co.uk/engagements/114939/viscount-ipswich-and-miss-o.-sladen Viscount Ipswich and Miss O. Sladen], Telegraph Announcements, ''[[The Daily Telegraph]]'', 15 April 2010, accessed 7 September 2021</ref> and they have three children.<ref>
"Lord Rafe FitzRoy", ''Peerage News'', March 20, 2017</ref>

== Published works ==
*{{cite book|first1=John|last1=Anderson|first2=Edward Bosc|last2=Sladen|first3=Horace Albert|last3=Browne|title=Mandalay to Momien: A Narrative of the Two Expeditions to Western China of 1868 and 1875, Under Colonel Edward B. Sladen and Colonel Horace Browne|url=https://archive.org/stream/mandalaytomomie00andegoog#page/n6/mode/2up|year=1876|publisher=Macmillan and Company}}
*{{cite book|author=Edward Bosc Sladen|title=Official Narrative of the Expedition to Explore the Trade Routes to China Via Bhamo|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OZ_ptgAACAAJ|year=1870|location=Rangoon}}

==References==
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