Henry Yule

Sir Henry Yule KCSI was a Scottish Orientalist. 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 AngloIndian terms, the HobsonJobson, along with Arthur Coke Burnell.

Henry Yule was born at Inveresk near Edinburgh in Scotland onMay 1820. He was the youngest son of Major William Yule and his wife Elizabeth Paterson . William Yule had served as an officer in the Bengal army of the East India Company and had retired in 1806. He was interested in Arabic and Persian literature and collected early manuscripts. These were later donated by his sons to the British Museum. He translated the Apothegms of Ali the son of Abu Talib

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