SPRING, Francis. 17?? — 18??. Rev. British Missionary of Church Missionary Society in India. M.A. Chaplain of Madras Army in Tellicherry from before 1817, when he founded a school there. Returned to the U.K. in 1824. The first name is somewhat uncertain, some Internet sources call him Frederic James. On his book’s title page he is simply F. Spring.
Wikitree knows one Frederick Spring (St Marylebone, Middlesex 30.3.1790 — Madras 7.1.1843), whose children were born in London (Frederick James, 1815), India (1817) Tellicherry (1819), Oxfordshire (1825) and Quilon (1828). From Wikipedia I learn that Fr. J. Spring married Jane Balfour Mackenzie and had at least one son, born 1840 in Bombay. The freepages.rootsweb.com tells that he was priest (Rev.) and lived 1815–1881, in 1881 he was “Vicar of Corton Suffolk and Oxford”,, his wife was born in 1815, they had at least four children. Perhaps the Malayālam grammar was written by this younger Spring.
Publications: Outlines of a Grammar of the Malayalim Language, as spoken in the Provinces of North and South Malabar and the Kingdoms of Travancore and Cochin. Madras 1839.
– A catechism and some biblical translations in Malayālam.
Sources: A few notes in The Missionary Register, etc.
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