John Biddulph

John Biddulph

Colonel John Biddulph (July 25 1848 - 1921) served in the government in British India. He wrote several works about India and about the history of the English presence there, [ [http://www.kingkong.demon.co.uk/ngcoba/bi.htm New General Catalog of Old Books & Authors] ] including biographies of Stringer Lawrence and Duplieix. Those books and his "Tribes of the Hindoo Koosh" are listed as references for several articles in the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition.

He corresponded on ornithology with Allan Octavian Hume in 1877 while at Gilgit.

In 1892, He was the British Resident at Gwalior, [ [http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/read/INDIA/2002-03/1016094818 rootsweb] ] the capital of a princely state in British India.

Writings

*"Tribes Of The Hindoo Koosh", 1880
*"The Nineteenth And Their Times", 1899
*"Stringer Lawrence, The Father Of The Indian Army", 1901
*"The Pirates Of Malabar, and An Englishwoman In India..." ,1907
*"Duplieix", 1910

References

External links

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* [http://www.archive.org/details/Duplieix Duplieix] by Colonel John Biddulph, 1910


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