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Benjamin Simpson

1831 – 1923

British photographer

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Lived 1831 – 1923 (aged 92). Benjamin Simpson was a British photographer and surgeon.

Sir Benjamin Simpson KCIE (31 March 1831 – 27 June 1923) Quetta, Bombay, Tomb of Amhed Shah, Baba Wali Kotal, Idgah Gate, Durani, Chilzina, Tukatoo, and Kirka Sharif have been collected in albums. Because the photos were grouped with those of John Burke (photographer) and those of others, many cannot be attributed.

Simpson was a member of the Bengal Photographic Society and produced 80 photographs grouped as Racial Types of Northern India he exhibited at the London International Exhibition in 1862, earning a gold medal. He also visited Assam in 1867 and 1868 producing illustrations for Descriptive ethnology of Bengal published in 1872. His photographs were also used in the eight volume series The People of India published 1868–1875. Simpson also photographed scenes during the Second Afghan War of 1879–1880 in Kandahar, Afghanistan. They were published by Bourne & Shepherd.

On 15 February 1887 he was in the first group of people appointed Knights Commander of the Order of the Indian Empire (KCIE).

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British photographer (1831–1923)

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Benjamin Simpson was born on 31 March 1831.

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Benjamin Simpson died on 27 June 1923.

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Benjamin Simpson was a photographer and surgeon.

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Benjamin Simpson was British.

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· Wikidata: Q20810485

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