PUXLEY, Edward Lavallin. Bristol or Clifton, Gloucestershire (?) 1835 — Croydon, London 30.6.1909. Rev. British (Irish?) Missionary in India. Son of John Lavallin Puxley (1800–1837) and Fanny White (1805–1857). From 1852 studies at Oxford (Brasenose College). From 1859 worked among Santals for Church Mission Society, said to have been the first missionary actually living among them. Retired 1866 because of health problems, returned to the U.K. and worked as vicar in England, from 1876 Rector of Great Catworth, Huntingdonshire. Married 1864 Maria Winifred Leader (1844–1885), eight children. Divyahansdawordpress.com claim that E. L. Puxley of Santal mission came from Cork, Ireland, and participated in Crimean was before studies at Oxford.
Publications: A Vocabulary of the Santálí Language. 6+139 p. L. 1868.
– Translated Biblical texts into Santali.
Sources: Alumni Oxonienses 1715-1886 (online); stray notes in Internet.
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