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Sir Michael Francis O'Dwyer GCIE KCSI (28 April 1864 – 13 March 1940) was an Irish colonial officer in the Indian Civil Service (ICS) and later the Lieutenant Governor of Punjab, British India, between 1913 and 1919. During O'Dwyer's tenure as Punjab's Lieutenant Governor, the Jallianwala Bagh massacre occurred in Amritsar, on 13 April 1919.
On 13 March 1940, at Caxton Hall in London, Udham Singh, an Indian independence activist from Sunam who had witnessed the events in Amritsar and who had been wounded there, shot and killed Michael O'Dwyer, the lieutenant-governor of Punjab at the time of the massacre, who had approved Dyer's action and was believed to have been the main planner.
Feb 7, 2021 · Sir Michael O’Dwyer, apologist for the Amritsar massacre, was also an Irish nationalist. He is a striking example of Irish participation in some of the British Empire’s most brutal acts. Sir...
Mar 13, 2023 · Michael O'Dwyer was the Lieutenant Governor of Punjab who endorsed the brutal shooting of protesters by General Dyer in 1919. He was assassinated by Udham Singh in 1940 in London for his role in the Jallianwala Bagh massacre.
Sir Michael O’Dwyer was lieutenant-governor of the Punjab at the time of the massacre. It took an assassin 21 years to track him down and shoot him at a public meeting in London....
Oct 14, 2021 · The Jallianwala Bagh massacre was a turning point in his life, and he resolved to take revenge. Two decades later, he fulfilled his promise as he shot Michael O’ Dwyer at a meeting in Caxton Hall, London. O’Dwyer was the lieutenant governor of Punjab when the Jallianwala Bagh incident had happened.
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