Dictionary of Indian Biography/Busteed, Henry Elmsley
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BUSTEED, HENRY ELMSLEY (1833–)
Brig-Surgeon : entered the Madras Medical service, 1856 : served in the Indian mutiny : at the relief of Lucknow, 1857 : was in the Assay Department of the Mints at Madras, Bombay, and Calcutta, successively : confirmed as Assay-master, Calcutta, 1872 : acted as Mintmaster, 1873 and 1875 : retired, June, 1886 : C.I.E., 1887 : author of Echoes from Old Calcutta.