| Activity | Indian-born British medical officer and author. He studied at St. George's Hospital, London.
He was with the Bengal Army, assistant surgeon in the Bengal Medical Service, and went with Harry Burnett Lumsden on the 1857 mission to Afghanistan. He was in Mardan with the Corps of Guides in the 1860s, and was then in Peshawar as a civil surgeon. He was appointed political officer at Kabul. He became Surgeon-General of India, retiring in 1886.
He wrote a number of books on contemporary India and Afghanistan, including the first grammar in English of Pashto.
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