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Dictionary of Indian Biography (Buckland)

Dictionary of Indian Biography A to C

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Date transcribed	2011-01-01
Transcribed by	Peter Bailey
Comment	Note that notables of Indian, Afghan, etc. origin do not always follow the alphabetical name pattern established by Buckland in his original work.

	Surname	Bellew
	First Name(s)	Henry Walter
	Year of Birth	1834
	Year of Death	1892
	Entry	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.I, 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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