JAMES, Walter Knight. Radford, Nottinghamshire ?.10.1853 — 1???. British Teacher in Sri Lanka. Son of Walter Redhead James and Clara Ann Fisher. In Sri Lanka. Principal of the Normal College, Colombo (1881). Married 1881 Julia Ann Robottom (d. 1889), two sons and one daughter.
Publications: A First Book of Botany for Siṇhalese Students. 135 p. Colombo 1883.
– “Siṇhalese Folk-lore Stories”, JRAS-CB7:25, 1882, 225-231; “Siṇhalese Bird-lore”, JRAS-CB8:26, 1883, 1-12.
– “Notes on Buddhist Images in Ceylon”, IA 13, 1884, 14-16.
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