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Auction: 23112 - Orders, Decorations and Medals - e-Auction
Lot: 360

Pair: Lieutenant H. G. Raverty, 3rd Bombay Native Infantry, Indian Army, a noted Oriental Scholar

Punjab 1848-49, 2 claps, Goojerat, Mooltan (Lieut Henry Geo. Raverty, 3rd Regt N. I.); India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, North West Frontier (Lieut H G Raverty, 3rd. Bombay N.I.), very fine (2)

Henry George Raverty was born on 31 May 1825 at Falmouth, Cornwall and was the son of Peter Raverty of Co. Tyrone, a surgeon in the Royal Navy.

He served in the Indian Army from 1843 -1864, rising to the rank of Major in the 3rd Bombay Native Infantry.

Raverty fought in the Punjab campaign of 1849–1850 and Swat campaign of 1850. He compiled a gazetteer of Peshawar. Whilst serving in Peshawar he was taught Pashto by the scholar Qazi Abdur Rahman Khan Muhammadzai (1827-1899) and Mirza Muhammad Ismail (1813-1912) and he began to study Afghan poetry.

On retirement from the army Raverty returned to England and continued his oriental studies, culminating in his vast Notes on Afghanistan and part of Baluchistan and his unpublished History of Herat. He died at Grampound Road, Cornwall on 20 October1906.

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