- Henry Yule
Sir Henry Yule (
May 1 ,1820 -December 30 ,1889 ), was a ScottishOrientalist .He was born at
Inveresk , Scotland, nearEdinburgh , the son of Major William Yule (1764-1839), translator of the "Apothegms of Ali". Henry Yule was educated at Edinburgh, Addiscombe and Chatham, and joined the Bengal Engineers in 1840. He served in both the Sikh wars, was secretary to Colonel (afterwards Sir)Arthur Phayre 's mission to Ava (1855), and wrote his "Narrative of the Mission to the Court of Ana" (1858).He retired in 1862 with the rank of colonel, and devoted his leisure to the
medieval history and geography ofCentral Asia . He published "Cathay and the Way Thither" (1866), the "Book ofMarco Polo ", for which he received the gold medal of theRoyal Geographical Society . He also brought out, in collaboration with DrArthur C. Burnell ,Hobson-Jobson (1886), a dictionary of Anglo-Indian colloquial phrases.For the
Hakluyt Society , of which he was for some time president, he edited (1863) the "Mirabilia" descriptor ofJordanus and "The Diary ofWilliam Hedges " (1887-89). The latter contains a biography of Governor Pitt, grandfather ofWilliam Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham . From 1875 to 1889 Yule was a member of theCouncil of India , being appointed Knight Commander of the Order of the Star of India on his retirement. Yule was a contributor to the creation of theOxford English Dictionary , advising inOriental matters.See "Memoir" by his daughter, prefixed to the posthumous third edition of "Marco Polo" (1903).
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He served in both the Sikh wars, was secretary to Colonel (afterwards Sir) Arthur Phayre's mission to Ava (1855), and wrote his Narrative of the Mission to the Court of A
va (1858).External links
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* [http://www.thoemmes.com/encyclopedia/yule.htm Henry Yule] at [http://www.thoemmes.com/ Thoemmes Continuum]
* digital versions (page images) of books by sir Henry Yule are available at the [http://dsr.nii.ac.jp/toyobunko/language/en.html.en Toyo Bunko Rare Books Archive] of the Digital Silk Roads Project
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