Henry walter bellew biography of albert

&#;BELLEW, HENRY WALTER (–), surgeon-general, born at Nusserabad in India on 30 Aug. , was son of Captain Henry Walter Bellew of the Bengal army, assistant quartermaster-general attached to the Cabul army in the disastrous retreat of He was educated as a medical student at St.

George's Hospital, London, and admitted a member of the Royal College of Surgeons of England in He served in the Crimean war during the winter of , and on 14 Nov. he was gazetted assistant-surgeon in the Bengal medical service, becoming surgeon in , and deputy airgeon-general in He went to India in , and was at once appointed to the corps of guides, but was soon afterwards ordered to join Major (Sir) Henry Lumsden [q.

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Suppl.] on his Candahar mission, and he was serving in Afghanistan during the sepoy mutiny.

Bellew rendered important services to the Indian government by his knowledge of the natives during the Ambeyla campaign, and as civil surgeon at Peshawar his name became a household word among the frontier tribes, whose language be spoke, and with whose manners and feelings he was thoroughly familiar.

In Lord Mayo employed him to act as interpreter with the ameer, Shere Ali, during the durbar at Ambala. In he accompanied Sir Richard Pollock on a political mission to Sista, and during he was attached to Sir Douglas Forsyth's embassy to Kashgar and Yarkand. In he was decorated with the order of a 'companion of the Star of India,' and after acting as sanitary commissioner for the Punjab he was appointed chief political officer at Cabul.

Henry walter bellew biography of albert After his medical studies in London and short service in the Crimean War he was gazetted assistant surgeon in the Bengal medical service. On his arrival in India in he was at once appointed to the Corps of Guides and sent on a political mission to Afghanistan. For the next 30 years, until his retirement with the rank of surgeon general in , he served mainly in the Punjab and on the Afghan frontier. He was for several years civil surgeon in Peshawar but also served the government as interpreter and political agent on several occasions, finally as chief political officer in Kabul. Throughout his service he took a lively interest in the languages and ethnography of the peoples within his charge.

But the cold and hardships he endured at the siege of Sherpvir brought on an attack of illness which obliged him to leave his post. He retired from the service with the rank of surgeon-general in November He died at Farnham Royal, Buckinghamshire, on 26 July , and his body was cremated at Brookwood. There is a bust of Bellew in the United Service Museum at Simla.

Bellew married Isabel, sister of General Sir George MacGregor, and by her had two daughters and one son, Robert Walter Dillon, now a captain in the 16th lancers.

Bellew belonged to the school of Anglo-Indian officials who have helped to build up and consolidate the British empire in India by acquiring a thorough knowledge of the natives' habits and modes of thought.

He was passionately fond of oriental studies, and acquired languages with great facility. His views on the history of these languages did not meet with general approval; but the numerous works he wrote, and the services he rendered to ethnography, grammar, and lexicography deserve grateful acknowledgment.

He wrote several books based on his explorations in the region during the course of his army career and also studied and wrote on the languages and culture of Afghanistan. Bellew was born at Nusserabad in India on 30 August , son of Captain Henry Walter Bellew of the Bengal army, assistant quartermaster-general attached to the Kabul army who was killed at Jalalabad in the disastrous retreat of He joined as a medical student at St. He served in the Crimean War during the winter of —5, and on 14 November he was gazetted assistant-surgeon in the Bengal medical service, becoming surgeon in , and deputy surgeon-general in He was in Mardan with the Corps of Guides in the s, and was then in Peshawar as a civil surgeon.

As sanitary commissioner of the Punjab it was his custom to visit even the small and remote villages, while in the larger towns he would assemble the members of the municipality and explain to them in a familiar style the advantages of vaccination and the necessity of using pure water and of practising general cleanliness.

He published in Punjabi a small treatise on vaccination, and such simple notes on cholera as could be easily understood by the people. As an explorer his gift of observation supplied minute and interesting information about regions that had been either unknown or but little known before he visited them; while as a political officer and representative Englishman on the Punjab frontier he gained in the highest degree the confidence of the native rulers as well as of their subjects.

Bellew's works are:

1. 'Journal of a Political Mission to Afghanistan in ,' London, , 8vo: full of information from a scientific as well as from a political point of view. The book is still valuable as a study of the character of the warlike hill tribes.
2. 'General Report on the Yusuf-zais in ' A work of great interest on the topography, history, antiquities, tribal subdivisions, government, customs, climate, and productions of the country.
3. 'A Grammar and Dictionary of the Pukkhto or Pukshto Language,' London, , 4to.
4. 'From the Indus to the Tigris, with a Grammar and Vocabulary of the Brahoe Language,' London, , 8vo.
5. 'General Description of the Kashgar,' , 4to.
6. 'The History of Kashgaria,' Calcutta, , 4to.
7. 'Kashmir and Kashgar, a Narrative of the Journey of the Embassy to Kashgar in ,' London, , 8vo.
8. 'Afghanistan and the Afghans,' London, , 8vo.
9. 'The Races of Afghanistan,' Calcutta, , 8vo.
10. 'A New Afghan Question; or.

    Are the Afghans Israelites?' Simla, , 8vo.

11. 'The History of Cholera in India from to ,' London, , 8vo.
12. 'A Short Practical Treatise on the Nature, Causes, and Treatment of Cholera' (a supplement to the preceding work), London, , 8vo.
13. 'An Enquiry into the Ethnography of Afghanistan,' Woking, , roy.

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    He was educated as a medical student at St. He served in the Crimean war during the winter of , and on 14 Nov. He went to India in , and was at once appointed to the corps of guides, but was soon afterwards ordered to join Major Sir Henry Lumsden [q. Bellew rendered important services to the Indian government by his knowledge of the natives during the Ambeyla campaign, and as civil surgeon at Peshawar his name became a household word among the frontier tribes, whose language be spoke, and with whose manners and feelings he was thoroughly familiar. In Lord Mayo employed him to act as interpreter with the ameer, Shere Ali, during the durbar at Ambala.

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