WARBURTON, COLONEL SIR ROBERT (1842 1899), Anglo-Indian soldier and administrator, was the son of an artillery officer who had been taken prisoner at Kabul in 1842, and married an Afghan princess. Warburton entered the Royal Artil lery in 1861, took part in the Abyssinian War of 1867-68, and then joined the Bengal Staff Corps. He served with distinction in the expedition against the Utman Khel in 1878 and in the Afghan War of 1878-80. Warburton was political officer in the Khyber between 1879 and 1882 with intervals of other duty, and con tinuously from 1882 until 189o. He turned the rude levies which
formed the Khyber Rifles into a fine corps, made the road safe, and kept the Afridis friendly. When the Afridis began to cause anxiety in 1897, Colonel Warburton was sent for by the government, but he arrived too late to check the rising. He retired after the campaign. He died at Kensington on April 22, 1899.