CAMMIADE, Louis Aime François. Madras 2.6.1872 — Worthing, Sussex 3.11.1951. British Civil Servant and lay Archaeologist in India. Son of merchant Gilbert Henry Cammiade (1841–1911) and Anne-Marie Adeline Sicé. Graduated from Madras University 1892 and in law from Middle Temple 1901. In 1895 joined I.C.S. in Madras Presidency, from 1903 Deputy Collector of Tinnevely (Tirunelveli). Called to the bar 1910, from 1917 Presidency Magistrate of Madras. In 1926 District Collector of Kurnool. Retired in the end of the 1930s Married Alice Eleanor Cardozo (1887–1920), then Elsie Lilian Cardozo (1891–1970), five children with the first, six with the second wife.
Cammiade was eager lay archaeologist who conducted excavations in various places and made noted prehistoric finds. In 1906-07 he was one of the first to find Tamil Brāhmī inscriptions, in Marungaltalai, Tinnevely dt.
Publications: “Notes on the Exploration of the Kurnool Bone Caves”, Man in India 6, 1926, 174-181; “Prehistoric Man in India and the Kurnool Bone Caves”, Man in India 7, 1927, 1-12.
– With M. C. Burkitt: “Fresh light on the Stone Ages in Southeast India”, Antiquity 4, 1930, 327-339.
– “Urn-Burials in the Wynaad, Southern India”, Man 30, 1930, 183-186, and two other notes by him, Man 30, 1930, 186-189; “Iron Smelting by Kois, a Jungle Tribe in the Eastern Ghats of India”, Man 31, 1931, 66-67; small notes also in other issues of Man.
– “Man-Eaters and Were-Tigers”, Man 31, 1931, 217-220.
Sources: Wikipedia with photo; Grokipedia; ancestry.com (born in Pondicherry).
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