Born at Manchester on March 16th, 1806, the son of Thomas Bellot, a surgeon practising in Oldham Street, and Jane Hale, daughter of Thomas Hale, of Darnhall, Cheshire. Thomas Bellot was educated at the Manchester Grammar School, which he entered in 1816, and was afterwards apprenticed to Joseph Jordan, a well-known practitioner in the city. He entered the Navy in 1831 and as Surgeon to the *Harrier* took part in several boat attacks on pirates in the Straits of Malacca. He joined the *Leveret* in 1835 and was engaged in the prevention of the slave trade. Bellot then served for three years in the *Firefly* on the West Indian Coast, where he had two attacks of yellow fever. He went with Wolfe in 1843 to the coast of China. In 1849 he was in medical charge of the *Havering* when she was conveying 300 convicts to Sydney and cholera broke out in the ship. He made his last voyage in 1854, when he joined the flagship *Britannia* which conveyed Vice-Admiral Dundas to the Black Sea as Commander of the Fleet. He was put in charge of the naval hospital at Therapia, on the Bosphorus, and returned to England in charge of invalids in 1855. He died at Manchester in June, 1857, and was buried in the churchyard at Poynton, Cheshire. Bellot was known as a philologist. He translated the “Aphorisms” of Hippocrates and Galen “On the Hand” in 1840. In the intervals of half pay he travelled abroad and made the acquaintance of Bunsen and Bopp. He published at Manchester in 1856 *Sanscrit Derivations of English Words*, which is in effect a comparative dictionary and wrote an article on the best means of learning the Chinese language. He bequeathed his collection of Chinese books and bronzes to the Manchester Free Library. His younger brother was William Henry Bellot (qv).