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Sir Henry Yule (
May 1,
1820 -
December 30,
1889), was a
Scottish Orientalist.
He was born at
Inveresk, Scotland, near
Edinburgh, 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 of
Central Asia. He published
Cathay and the Way Thither (1866), the
Book of Marco Polo, for which he received the gold medal of the
Royal Geographical Society. He also brought out, in collaboration with Dr
Arthur 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 of
Jordanus and
The Diary of William Hedges (1887-89). The latter contains a biography of Governor Pitt, grandfather of
William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham. From 1875 to 1889 Yule was a member of the
Council 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 the
Oxford English Dictionary, advising in
Oriental matters.
See
Memoir by his daughter, prefixed to the posthumous third edition of
Marco Polo (1903).
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