James Herbert Brockencote Hallen
1829–1901
Army veterinary surgeon. Qualified at Edinburgh University in 1848 and joined the Bombay Veterinary Service in 1850. Served with the First Bombay Lancers, 1850–5; employed on remount purchasing duties, 1855–8; Bombay Horse Artillery, 1858–62; principal veterinary surgeon of the Bombay army, 1862; superintendent of the Stud Department of Bombay Presidency, 1863; head of veterinary service in the Abyssianian war, 1867–8. Served on the Special Stud Commission, 1872–6; government superintendent of horse breeding, 1876; inspector general of the civil veterinary department of India, 1892.
Sources
England, select births and christenings, 1538–1975 (Ancestry.com, accessed 10 January 2018)
England & Wales, national probate calendar (index of wills and administrations), 1858–1966, 1973–95 (Ancestry.com, accessed 10 January 2018)
Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 24 (1901–3): 642–5
F. Smith 1927, p. 194
Bibliography
Smith, Frederick. 1927. A history of the Royal Army Veterinary Corps, 1796–1919. London: published for the ‘Royal Army Veterinary Corps Officers’ Fund’ by Baillière, Tindall and Cox.
