Charles Holroyd

From 'A Branch of the Holroyd Family' by Thomas Holroyd, 1879:

Charles Holroyd entered the Military Service of the East India Company on the 11th June, 1839, and retired as a Major-General on the 23rd January, 1875. While in India he was employed most of the time on the Staff in Assam. In the Mutiny in 1857 he received the heartfelt thanks of the Europeans resident in Assam, as the following inscription on the Testimonial they presented to him will bear witness.

Presented to
CAPTAIN CHARLES HOLROYD,
Principal Assistant Commissioner, Seebsaugur, Upper Assam,
by the Tea Planters of his District,
in testimony of their high appreciation of the untiring energy, Zeal, and
courage displayed by him during the alarming crisis in 1857,
to whose forethought and skilful arrangements in unravelling the plot
of the Mutineers to massacre all the Europeans in the Province,
they entirely attribute the safety of their lives,
and the preservation of their property.

The above inscription was engraved on a very handsome large silver salver, and presented to Captain Holroyd by the Tea Planters; the Government, however, would not allow him too accept it, and Planters, therefore, sent it to England to his Brother, Henry Holroyd, Barrister-at-Law, with a request that he would presented to his Brother on his retirement from the Service.