MAHON, George William. Madras 1808 — Aspley Guise, Woburn, Bedfordshire 1866. Rev. British Clergyman in India. Son of William Mahon, of Swansea. Matriculated 1824 Pembroke College, Oxford, B.A. 1828 and Fellow 1828-37. M.A. 1831, Chaplain 1834. After brief service in Bangalore, Chaplain of Fort St. George in Madras 1839-49, removed because of a suicide burial case. Then on a furlough, finally retired in 1852 and settled in Woburn. Married Caroline Charlotte Scraman (1820–1896), three sons and one daughter.
Publications: Translated Beschi’s Tamil Grammar into English: A grammar of the common dialect of the Tamil language called Koṭuntamiḻ. 7+147 p. Madras 1848; Sermons. Madras 1850.
Sources: www.spuddybike.org.uk/familyhistory/madras/priests/detail/priest_2984.html (referring to *Frank Perry, The Church In Madras. 1904); no more than the title of Sermons in Allibone in Br. Biogr. Arch.
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