Brigadier Allen Robert Betham Shuttleworth (20 February 1873 – 30 July 1935) was an officer in the

British Indian Army The British Indian Army, commonly referred to as the Indian Army, was the main military of the British Raj before its dissolution in 1947. It was responsible for the defence of the British Indian Empire, including the princely states, which co ...

and player of The Great Game. Shuttleworth was born in Dapoli,

North-West Provinces The North-Western Provinces was an administrative region in British India. The North-Western Provinces were established in 1836, through merging the administrative divisions of the Ceded and Conquered Provinces. In 1858, the nawab-ruled kingdo ...

, India, to Allen Thornton Shuttleworth, who won the Albert Medal of the First Class, and Laura Phoebe Betham. His younger brother was Sir

Digby Shuttleworth Major-General Sir Digby Inglis Shuttleworth KCIE CB CBE DSO (23 August 1876 – 15 May 1948) was a senior British Indian Army officer. Biography Born on 23 August 1876, Digby Shuttleworth was educated at Bedford School, and joined the 3rd Gu ...

. Shuttleworth joined the British Army relatively late, beginning his career in the militia. For a time in 1908, Shuttleworth was acting Consul in

Kashgar Kashgar ( ug, قەشقەر, Qeshqer) or Kashi ( zh, c=喀什) is an oasis city in the Tarim Basin region of Southern Xinjiang. It is one of the westernmost cities of China, near the border with Afghanistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Pakistan ...

while George Macartney was in England. During this time, Shuttleworth became involved in investigating the expeditions of

Eizaburo Nomura was a Japanese explorer of Central Asia. He made two trips to Central Asia between 1902 and 1910, all financed by Count Ōtani. Although he travelled as a secretary of Otani's Buddhist temple in Kyoto, he was suspected, correctly, by British ...

and

Zuicho Tachibana was a Japanese explorer of Central Asia. Biography He made three trips to Central Asia between 1902 and 1910, all financed by Count Otani. Although he travelled as a priest of the Jōdo Shinshū sect, he was suspected by British and Russian Inte ...

, even dining with them at

Chini-Bagh Chini-Bagh was the Kashgar, Xinjiang residence of George Macartney, Britain's consul-general and his wife, Lady Catherine Macartney, for 28 years. Over the years, Chini-Bagh saw a variety of Central Asian explorers, including Aurel Stein, Fath ...

. Shuttleworth reported his suspicions to Sir Francis Younghusband, and these suspicions about the two Japanese eventually made its way to Lord Morley, Secretary of State for India.

Hopkirk, Peter Peter Stuart Hopkirk (15 December 1930 – 22 August 2014) was a British journalist, author and historian who wrote six books about the British Empire, Russia and Central Asia. Biography Peter Hopkirk was born in Nottingham, the son of Frank St ...

(1980). ''Foreign Devils on the Silk Road: The Search for the Lost Cities and Treasures of Chinese Central Asia''. Amherst: The University of Massachusetts Press. . Shuttleworth died suddenly in Ajmer, Rajasthan.

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1873 births 1935 deaths British Indian Army officers British diplomats People from Dapoli Military personnel from Maharashtra British people in colonial India {{UK-politician-stub