19 DECEMBER 1931, Page 18

POINTS FROM LETTERS

LADY WHEELER.

In The Indian Mutiny in Perspective, page 99, Sir George MacMunn revives the legend that the unfortunate Lady Wheeler, of Cawnpore, was a Brahmin lady, and builds an elaborate theory about the massacre on this foundation. It is only due to her memory and to historical accuracy to point out that Lady Wheeler was an Englishwoman. Her maiden name was Frances Matilda Oliver, and she was the daughter of Lieutenant-Colonel T. S. Oliver, who married Frances Marsden at Cawnpore in 1810, and was killed before Kabul in 1841. Frances Oliver married Sir Hugh Wheeler at Agra in the following March. See Bengal Past and Present, Vol. XXXDC, Part ii, p. 179.—H. G. RAWLINSON, The Deccan College, Poona.