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SIR HENRY YULE (182o-1889)

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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 946 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SIR See also:HENRY See also:YULE (182o-1889)  , See also:British Orientalist, was See also:born on the 1st of May 1820, at Inveresk, near See also:Edinburgh, the son of See also:Major See also:William See also:Yule (1764-1839), translator of the Apothegms of See also:Ali . He was educated at Edinburgh, Addiscombe and See also:Chatham, and joined the See also:Bengal See also:Engineers in 1840 . He served in both the See also:Sikh See also:wars, was secretary to See also:Colonel (afterwards See also:Sir) See also:Arthur Phayre's See also:mission to See also:Ava (1855), and wrote his Narrative of the Mission to the See also:Court of Ava (1858) . He retired in 1862 with the See also:rank of colonel, and devoted his leisure to the See also:medieval See also:history and See also:geography of Central See also:Asia . He published See also:Cathay and the Way Thither (1866), the See also:Book of See also:Ser Marco See also:Polo 1871-75), for which he received the See also:gold See also:medal of the Royal See also:Geographical Society, and brought out with Dr Arthur C . See also:Burnell Hobson-Jobson (1886), a See also:dictionary of Anglo-See also:Indian colloquial phrases . For the See also:Hakluyt Society, of which he was for some See also:time See also:president, he edited (1863) the Mirabilia descriptaof See also:Jordanus and The See also:Diary of William Hedges (1887-89) . The latter contains a See also:biography of See also:Governor See also:Pitt, grandfather of Chatham . From 1875 to 1889 Yule was a member of the See also:Council of See also:India, being appointed K.C.S.I. on his retirement . He died on the 3oth of See also:December 1889 . See Memoir by his daughter, prefixed to the See also:posthumous third edition of_Marco Polo (1903) .

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I have an oil on canvas by Henry Yule that we inherited.Would it be worth anything? Thank you, J.Devers
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