RIDGEWAY, Thomas (Tom) Bruce. Chewelah, co. Stevens, WA 30.9.1949 — Seattle 15.4.2005. U.S. Linguist. Son of Colonel Gordon Blais Ridgeway (1918–2003) and Margaret Adelaide Carlock (1922–2015), grew up in Taiwan and Germany. Went to India as a Peace Corps Volunteer. B.A. in chemistry. Ph.D. 1986 University of Washington. Started mainly as Gujarati scholar, then Director of the Center for Computing and Humanities, University of Washington, developing Indic fonts and Sanskrit e-texts. The Centre was abolished in 1994. Married, two daughters.
Publications: Diss. The syntax of case in Medieval Western Hindi. Manuscript, Seattle 1986.
Sources: D. Wujastyk in Indology List 2006; findagrave.com
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