WOODHOUSE, Edmund. Finningley, Nottingham 1841 — Tanga, German East Africa (Tanzania) 1895. This death in Jayasuriya, but ancestry.com claims Warmbaths, Transvaal, South Africa 26.5.1937. British Planter, Writer and Traveller in Sri Lanka. Son of Rev. Gervas Harvey Woodhouse (1802–1882) and Miriam Pigot. Probably came to Ceylon in 1865. Coffee planter in Ramboda, Central Ceylon. Corresponded with H. Schuchhardt. Married Marasena Jedre Ukku (b. 1846), one son.
Publications: “Influence of Portuguese and Dutch Languages in the Sinhalese and Tamil”, Orientalist 1, 1884, 223-226 & 2, 1885-86, 155-158.
Sources: S. de S. Jayasuriya, “Correspondence between Hugo Schuchardt, John Henry Eaton, Donald Ferguson, Edmund Woodhouse and William Goonetilleke on Ceylon Portuguese with Linguistic Insights”, Grazer Linguistische Studien 84, 2015, 103-125; ancestry.com; genealogysrilanka.com.
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