WOLFENDEN, Stuart Norris. London 1889 — Berkeley, Calif. 28.12.1938 (when 47). British Tibeto-Burman Linguist in the U.S.A. Son of physician Richard Norris Wolfenden and Jessie Stuart Jardine, born with somewhat crippled hip. Parents separated in practice 1892 (formally 1902) because of mother’s alcoholism, grew up with his father in Pangbourne, Berkshire. Details of education and studies are missing. At University of California, Berkeley, from 1935 titular head of the Sino-Tibetan Philology Project. Wolfenden was one of the pioneers of  comparative Tibeto-Burman linguistics.

Publications: Outlines of Tibeto-Burman Linguistic Morphology with special reference to the prefixes, infixes and suffixes of classical Tibetan and the languages of the Kachin, Bodo, Nǎgǎ, Kuki-Chin and Burma groups. 15+216 p. L. 1929.

– Many articles on Tibetan and Tibeto-Burman, often in JRAS; e.g. “The Prefix m- with Certain Substantives in Tibetan”, Language 4, 1928, 277-280; “Notes on the Jyarung Dialect of Eastern Tibet”, TP 32, 1936, 167-204; “Concerning the Origins of Tibetan brgiad and Chinese 八 pwât ‘Eight’”, TP 34, 1938, 165-173.

Sources: G. Clauson, JRAS 1939, 507f.; briefly in Wikipedia (with bibliography), with Clauson as the only source. Nothing further in Internet, all repeat the same scanty information in the same words. Finally (2026) Grokipedia offered some details about his life.