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.