author
R. E. Cholmeley
Best known for a vivid short biography of the British officer John Nicholson, this early 20th-century writer focused on imperial history and military character. Little personal information about the author now survives, which gives the work an added air of period curiosity.
1 Audiobook
John Nicholson, the Lion of the Punjaub
by R. E. Cholmeley
About the author
R. E. Cholmeley is known for John Nicholson, the Lion of the Punjaub, a biographical work about the 19th-century soldier and administrator John Nicholson. The book has remained accessible through major public-domain archives, which suggests it has continued to interest readers of colonial and military history.
Very little reliable biographical information about Cholmeley appears to be readily available today. Because of that, it is safest to remember the author through the surviving work itself: a compact, energetic portrait of a dramatic and controversial figure from British India.
For modern listeners, Cholmeley is less a familiar literary personality than a guide to how an earlier generation wrote about empire, heroism, and history. That makes the book interesting not only for its subject, but also for the perspective of the era in which it was written.