Humphry Sandwith
1822–81
Author and military surgeon. Surgeon to Austen Henry Layard’s expedition to Nineveh, 1849–51. In charge of the British hospital at Constantinople (Istanbul), 1851–4. Chief medical officer to the British and Turkish forces at Kars during the Crimean War, 1854–5. Wrote A narrative of the siege of Kars (1856). Colonial secretary of Mauritius, 1857–9. Campaigned on behalf of the Serbs in their war against the Ottoman Empire, 1876–7.
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Bibliography
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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