The New International Encyclopædia/Wells, Charles

WELLS, Charles (1838—). An English Orientalist, born in London and educated at King's College, London, where he won the Turkish prize in 1800. He was professor of English at the Imperial Naval College at Constantinople from 1870 to 1874, and became professor of Turkish in King's College, London, in 1889 and Oriental translator to the Foreign Office in 1892. His publications are: Ibn Tedbir-i-Mulk, an essay on Turkish political economy (1860); Mohamet, the Kurd, and Other Tales from Eastern Sources (1865); A Practical Grammar of the Turkish Language (1880); and The Literature of the Turks (1900). He also published a revised and enlarged edition of Reahouse's Turkish Dictionary (1880).