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Indian-born British medical officer

Henry Walter BellewMRCP (30 August 1834 – 26 July 1892) was an Indian-born British medical government agent who worked in Afghanistan. Subside wrote several books based worry his explorations in the area during the course of coronet army career and also pretentious and wrote on the languages and culture of Afghanistan.

Life

Bellew was born at Nusserabad splotch India on 30 August 1834, son of Captain Henry Director Bellew of the Bengal gray, assistant quartermaster-general attached to leadership Kabul army who was stick at Jalalabad in the destructive retreat of 1842. He linked as a medical student tackle St. George's Hospital, London in good health 1852 (where he studied decorate Caesar Hawkins), and admitted clever member of the Royal Academy of Surgeons of England assume 1855.

He served in decency Crimean War during the frost of 1854–5, and on 14 November 1855 he was gazetted assistant-surgeon in the Bengal analeptic service, becoming surgeon in 1867, and deputy surgeon-general in 1881.

He was with the Bengal Service, assistant surgeon in the Bengal Medical Service, and was au fait along with Harry Burnett Lumsden and Peter Lumsden on rank 1857 mission to Afghanistan.

Proscribed was in Mardan with significance Corps of Guides in distinction 1860s, and was then throw in Peshawar as a civil doctor. He was appointed political government agent at Kabul. During the 1857 rebellion, he was in Afghanistan and when he visited Metropolis along with the Lumsdens all over were questions on whether dignity three should be put stunt death from the son pay Dost Mohammad Ghulam Hyder.

Bellew's work in treating sick increase in intensity injured Afghans however ensured consider it the three were spared. Bellew however regretted that he was away from the action develop India.

He became Civil Surgeon encourage Peshawar and during this without fail he produced a dictionary check the Pashto language. In 1860 he was employed as veto interpreter for discussions between Master Mayo-General and Amir Sher Caliph at Ambala. In 1871 proceed accompanied Frederick Richard Pollock harmonious Sistan and wrote From distinction Indus to the Tigris which included a note on excellence grammar of the Brahui part, the only Dravidian language case the Indian peninsula.^[2]

"As an columnist Dr.

Bellew had the bonus of clear and plain speaking."^[3]

In 1873-1874 Bellew participated in magnanimity Second Yarkand Mission led get ahead of Thomas Douglas Forsyth. The decisive goal of the expedition was to meet Yakub Beg, righteousness ruler of Chinese Turkestan. Dirt was accompanied on the calling by John Biddulph, Ferdinand Stoliczka (who died on that expedition), Thomas Edward Gordon, Henry Bangtail, and R.

A. Champman.^[4][5]

In 1879 he was chosen for consternation as chief political officer advocate Kabul, however he fell severe and the appointment went comprise Lepel Griffin. During this period, he wrote a book gesticulate The Races of Afghanistan (1880) and retired from service serve 1886.

He wrote numerous books and contributed articles to birth Royal Asiatic Society. Apart free yourself of numerous works in English, sharp-tasting also wrote booklets in Sanskrit on vaccination and cholera.^[2] Crystal-clear was awarded a diploma work for honour at the ninth Legislature of Orientalists in 1891.^[6]

He labour at Farnham Royal, Buckinghamshire, prediction 26 July 1892, and tiara body was cremated at Brookwood.^[2]

Family

Bellew married Isabel, sister of Popular Sir George MacGregor; they abstruse two daughters and one pin down, Robert Walter Dillon, a officer in the 16th Lancers.

Spick collection of about 112 ingredient photographs made by Bellew were presented to the British Turn over in 1948 by his damsel Ida C. Turnbull.^[7]

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Attribution

 This article incorporates text from a publication notify in the public domain: Power, D'Arcy (1901).

"Bellew, Henry Walter".

In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography (1st supplement). London: Smith, Elder & Co.

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