COLE, Robert Andrews. Madras 1835 — 1907. British Colonial Officer in India. Son of Major Robert Wynne Cole (1803–1867), an army doctor. Educated in Madras, learned Tamil and Kannaḍa. As a young Captain he served as Superintendent in Coorg in 1866-69 (with two intervals). Later Colonel in Madras Staff Corps. Retired as Major-General and spent his last years in England. Married 1856 Pauline Eliza McCally (1835–1880) and as widower Henrietta Porteus (1854–1935, six children. He wrote the very first grammar of the Dravidian Koḍagu language.
Publications: “Memorandum on certain Copper Grants found during the settlement of the Ináms in the Malnád or the Hill-tracts of the Nagar division”, ProcASB 1872, 193f.; notes on cromlechs in South India in ProcASB 1868-69.
– An elementary grammar of the Coorg Language. 136 p. Bangalore 1867.
– A Manual of Coorg Civil Law. 19+129 p. Bangalore 1871.
Sources: C.P. Belliappa in the Star of Mysore 19.2.2019; kodavaclan.co/kodaguheritage/an-elementary-grammar-of-coorg-language/ with photo; myheritage.com.
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