This year marks the 250th anniversary of the first edition of The New Peerage published in 1769 by a bookseller and stationer, John Almon. He passed on the editorship to one of his assistants and, perhaps unfairly, it became known as Debrett’s after its second editor, John Debrett.
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Another Bellew on the Green Benches?
The posts I most enjoy writing are about my antecedents. Bellews have been biggish fish in a small pool, Ireland. In England they would have perhaps had Minor County status but as Catholic landowners they had enough money to have a network of European connections through marriage. It is one reason I identify myself as… Continue reading Another Bellew on the Green Benches?
The Great Game
This picture, in the British Library, was taken at Jamrud Fort during the return from a Durbar at Umballa. Amir Sher Ali Khan is in the centre with Colonel Frederick Pollock standing, Colonel Crawford Trotter Chamberlain sitting on the right and to the left, Henry Walter Bellew, Indian Medical Service, acting as interpreter.