Robert Barkley Shaw
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| Born | 1839 | ||||||
| Died | 1879 | ||||||
| Residence | East House, Dhurmsala, Punjab, India | ||||||
| Occupation | explorer | ||||||
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SHAW, ROBERT BARKLEY (1839–1879), traveller,
Robert Barkley Shaw , born 1839 in London , died in 1879 in Mandalay , English explorers .
Shaw for 1859 to India , where he was in Kangra had a tea plantation , made several expeditions in the Himalayas and pressed on in 1868 as a merchant through East Turkestan to Jarkand and Kashgar , where he admittedly could not get in, but however countered politely of Yakub Beg .
1870 he participated in Forsyth's first Embassy to Kashgar; then he went in the Indian government service and was appointed in 1878 to the resident in Mandalay. He wrote, among other things, A Visit to High Tartary, Yarkand and Kashgar (1871) and A Sketch of the Turki Language as Spoken in Eastern Turkistan ( Lahore , 1875).
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He published: 1. ‘A Visit to High Tartary, Yarkund, and Kashgar,’ London, 1871. 2. ‘A Sketch of the Turki Language as spoken in Eastern Turkestan,’ Lahore, 1875, 8vo. 3. ‘The Ghalchah Languages,’ Calcutta, 1876. He contributed to the Royal Geographical Society's ‘Proceedings’ ‘The Position of Pein, Charchand, and Lob Nor’ (xvi. 242); and ‘A Prince of Kashgar (Mirza Haidar, Doghlat) on the Geography of Turkistan’ (xx. 482); and to the Royal Asiatic Society's ‘Transactions’ ‘On the Hill Canton of Salar, the most easterly Settlement of the Turki Race’ (x. 305, new series).
