Colonel Sir Henry Yule | |
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Born | Inveresk, East Lothian, Scotland | 1 May 1820
Died | 30 December 1889 London, Middlesex, England | (aged 69)
Education | Addiscombe Military Seminary |
Occupation(s) | Orientalist, geographer |
Notable work | Hobson-Jobson (1886) |
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Colonel Sir Henry Yule KCSI CB FRSGS (1 May 1820 – 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.
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