Lena Login

Lena, Lady Login ( Campbell; 1820 – 17 April 1904) was a Scottish courtier and author. She was involved with educating Duleep Singh, deposed maharaja of the Sikh kingdom of the Punjab, when he was still a child, and later with bringing him to the UK. Queen Victoria asked her to look after another exiled Indian noble, Victoria Gouramma, daughter of the deposed ruler of Coorg, and to find her an acceptable husband.

Life Login was born in Perth in Scotland in 1820. She went to India with her sister and brother-in-law, Major Hope Dick. It was in Lucknow that she married John Spencer Login in 1842. He was the Resident Surgeon at Lucknow, the physician to the court of Oudh and Postmaster General of Oudh. However, here, his wife Lena was able assist in diagnosing the medical conditions.

In 1849 her husband was made the guardian to Duleep Singh who was a deposed teenage ruler. Lena became part of his education giving him lessons in expected (British) behaviour. Duleep Singh became a Christian in 1853 and the following year they all went to Britain where her husband was knighted.

Login died in Aylesford in 1904.