Henry Walter Bellew

Henry Walter Bellew MRCP (1834-1892) was an Indian-born British medical man and author. He studied at St. George's Hospital, London.

He was with the Bengal Army, assistant surgeon in the Bengal Medical Service, and went with Harry Burnett Lumsden on the 1857 mission to Afghanistan. He was in Mardan with the Corps of Guides in the 1860s, and was then in Peshawar as a civil surgeon. He was appointed political officer at Kabul. He became Surgeon-General of India, retiring in 1886.

He wrote a number of books on contemporary India and Afghanistan, including the first grammar in English of Pashto.

Works

 * A Grammar of the Pooshtoo Language (1854)
 * Journal of a Political Mission to Afghanistan in 1857 (1862)
 * A General Report on the Yusufzais (1864)
 * Afghanistan and the Afghans : being a brief review of the history of the country and account of its people, with a special reference to the present crisis and war with the Amir Sher Ali Khan (1879)
 * Races of Afghanistan (1880)
 * The History of Cholera in India from 1862 to 1881 (1885)
 * A Dictionary of the Pukkhto or Pushto Language, in which the words are traced to their sources in the Indian and Persian Languages (1891, reprinted 2001)
 * An Inquiry into the Ethnography of Afghanistan (1891)
 * Kashmir and Kashghar: A Narrative of the Journey of the Embassy to Kashghar in 1873-74
 * From the Indus to the Tigris

Reference

 * Concise Dictionary of National Biography