CLAYTON, Albert Charles. St.Helens, Merseyside 1869 — 1956. Rev. British Methodist Missionary in South India, a Tamil Scholar. Educated in Hull and Liverpool, studies at University College, London. In 1934 apparently still in Madras, in 1941 living in Bournemouth, England. Also knew Telugu. Probably married Lydia Beckett (b. 1869), three children.
Publications: “The Paraiyan, and the Legend of Nandan”, Madras Govt. Museum, Bulletin 5, 1906, 53-97.
– A Key to Rev. Pope’s “A handbook of the Tamil language”. 151 p. Madras 1909.
– The Rig-Veda and Vedic Religion: with readings from the Vedas. 292 p. L. 1913.
– A classified catalogue of Protestant Tamil Christian Literature. 51 p. Madras 1918.
– Graded Tamil Reader. 1-2. Madras 1934-48; An Introduction to Spoken Tamil. 359 p. Madras 1939.
– Religious works.
Sources: dnvg92zx1wnds.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/cms/c/Cad_Col; stray notes in Internet; works in N.U.C.
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