Henry Yule
Scottish Orientalist and geographer (1820ā1889) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Colonel Sir Henry Yule KCSI CB FRSGS (1 May 1820 ā 30 December 1889) was a Scottish Orientalist and geographer. He published many travel books, including translations of the work of Marco Polo and Mirabilia by the 14th-century Dominican Friar Jordanus. He was also the compiler of a dictionary of Anglo-Indian terms, the Hobson-Jobson, with Arthur Coke Burnell.
Not to be confused with Henry Youll.
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Colonel Sir Henry Yule | |
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Born | (1820-05-01)1 May 1820 Inveresk, East Lothian, Scotland |
Died | 30 December 1889(1889-12-30) (aged 69) London, Middlesex, England |
Education | Addiscombe Military Seminary |
Occupation(s) | Orientalist, geographer |
Notable work | Hobson-Jobson (1886) |
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