Stephen Wootton Bushell

English physician and amateur Orientalist (1844-1908) · Doctors · Died at 64

Stephen Wootton Bushell CMG MD was an English physician and amateur Orientalist who made important contributions to the study of Chinese ceramics, Chinese coins and the decipherment of the Tangut script.

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Bushell's decipherement of 37 Tangut characters

Bronze 'fish tally' with small Khitan inscription reading "Commander of the Heaven Cloud Army" owned by Bushell

Page from the Chinese 'Phags-pa rhyming dictionary manuscript owned by Bushell

Awards

Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George

About this person

Doctors born in the 1840s 6

Otto Michael Ludwig Leichtenstern36.7 of 100 William Abraham Bell36.7 of 100

Tempest Anderson36.9 of 100

Alexander Macalister36.6 of 100 Atmaram Sadashiv Jayakar37.0 of 100 Emily Bovell36.2 of 100