Andrew Dalgleish (? – 1888 on Karakoram Pass, between Ladakh, India and East Turkestan (now Xinjiang, China) was a Scottish trader, traveller and possibly Great Game spy.
As an agent of Central Asian Trading Company founded by Robert Barkley Shaw he was one of the first British traders in Ladakh, engaged in trans-Karakoram trade in the 1870s and 1880s. He married a Yarkandi wife.
He was murdered by an Afghan named Daud Mohammad in 1888 near the Karakoram Pass while underway to Turkestan. A small memorial was erected on the desolate site of his death. His resting place is Christian cemetery in Leh, Ladakh. His murderer was arrested in 1890 in Samarkand (then Russia) and committed suicide in prison.
Further reading
- Rizvi, Janet. (1996) Ladakh. Crossroads of High Asia. Oxford University Press, New Delhi. ISBN 0-19-564546-4, pp. 105-106
Links
- A Book of Escapes and Hundred Journeys, by John Buchan pp. 286-291.
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