Hamilton Vetch

Hamilton Vetch (1804–1865)[1] was a British officer of the Bengal Army of the East India Company, who reached the rank of major-general.

[7] Vetch then served in the Anglo-Khasi War of 1829–1833 under David Scott, occupying Nongkhlaw in the western Khasi Hills.

[9] Vetch brought up the 43rd Assam Light Infantry in a decisive encounter, and proceeded to destroy villages.

[13] In 1841, he was Principal Assistant, political agent for eastern Assam, and serving with the 54th Bengal Native Infantry.

He had been in negotiations with local leaders in 1847 on gold washing, but subsequently resorted to an expedition to free some Bodo–Kachari people who had been detained while engaged in it.

[20] With Commissioner Francis Jenkins, Vetch took an interest in the economic possibilities of the Brahmaputra Valley in Assam.

[23] In 1851 Vetch wrote to Jenkins in general terms about difficulties experienced by those attempting gold washing on the Dibang River, a tributary of the Brahmaputra.

[28] Vetch gave extended evidence on the economy of Assam to a House of Lords committee in March 1859, as a lieutenant-colonel.

"[32]A formal notice in the London Gazette gave as an East Lothian residence Huntingdon, which may be Huntington House, Haddington.

Their daughter Agnes (born 1845), the first child, married Wladislaw (Ladislaw) Ścibor-Rylski in 1870, in Bayonne or Biarritz — he was in business in Lucerne.