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​BELLEW, HENRY WALTER (1834–1892)

Son of Capt. H. W. Bellew, of the Bengal Army: born Aug. 30, 1834: educated at St. George's Hospital, London M.D.: in the Crimean war: went to India in the Bengal Medical service, 1856: with Sir H. B. Lumsden's (q.v.) mission to Kandahar in 1857–8: in the Umbeyla campaign: Civil Surgeon of Peshawar: interpreter at the Umbala darbar of 1869 with the Amir Shir Ali: was on Sir R. Pollock's mission to Seistan, 1871, and Sir T. D. Forsyth's mission to Kashgar and Yarkand, 1873–4: C.S.L in 1873: Chief Political officer at Kabul in the second Afghan war: retired as Surgeon-General, 1886: died July 26, 1892: he had a faculty for learning Oriental languages, and wrote about them as well as about medical subjects and the countries which he had visited and their inhabitants.

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