A. R. B. Shuttleworth

Captain A.R.B. Shuttleworth a British player of The Great Game.

For a time in 1908, Shuttleworth was acting Consul in Kashgar while George Macartney was in England. During this time, Shuttleworth became involved in investigating the expeditions of Eizaburo Nomura and Zuicho Tachibana, even dining with them at Chini-Bagh. 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.

References

• Galambos, Imre (2010). "Japanese ‘spies’ along the Silk Road: British suspicions regarding the second Otani expedition (1908-09)". Japanese religions, Vol. 35 (1 & 2), pp. 33–61.
• Hopkirk, Peter (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. ISBN 0-87023-435-8.