From a photograph by Bassano.
Born at Cawnpore, India, 1832; son of General Sir Abraham Roberts, G.C.B.; educated at Eton, Sandhurst, and Addiscombe; Second Lieutenant (Bengal Artillery), 1851; Lieutenant, 1857; Captain, 1860; Brev. Major, 1860; Brev. Lieut.-Colonel, 1868; Brev. Colonel, 1875; Major-General, 1878; Lieut.-General, 1883; General, 1890; raised to the peerage, 1892; Field-Marshal, 1895. D.A.Q.M.G. throughout the Indian Mutiny; served in Abyssinia, 1867-8; commanded the Kuram Field Force, 1879, Kabul Field Force, 1879-80, Kabul-Kandahar Field Force, 1880; in Afghanistan, 1880; in Burma, 1886. Commander-in-Chief (Madras), 1881; Commander-in-Chief in India, 1885-93; Commander of the Forces in Ireland, 1895, and in South Africa, December, 1899.
PRETORIA.
WITH THE FLAG TO PRETORIA