Richard Udny

Sir Richard Udny, KCSI (18 July 1847 – 24 April 1923) was an official in British India, best known for his role in defining the border with the Emirate of Afghanistan.

This demarcation was the first stage in making the Durand Line of 1893 concrete in geographical terms, a process that lasted into the 20th century.

from Aberdeen University in 1866, and matriculated at Trinity College, Cambridge in the Michaelmas term that year, at which time his father was given as of St Andrews.

[13] On the British side, Udny, supported by Harold Deane, believed Ghulam Haidar Khan was fomenting the tribal uprising under orders, despite denials from the Amir.

Holdich was not so definite, thinking from personal knowledge that Ghulam Haidar Khan's motivations were more religious than political.

On 18 August Udny ordered Captain William Barton, commanding the Khyber Rifles at Landi Kotal, to retreat, an incident about which a parliamentary question was later asked by Bernard Molloy.

[15] The Viceroy of India, Victor Bruce, 9th Earl of Elgin, was less convinced of the Amir's involvement in the frontier disturbances.

Udny and Sir William Cuningham, however, had intelligence reports in September of covert support from the Afghan regular forces to the Afridi insurgents who were in arms by late August.