O’MALLEY, Lewis Sydney Stewart. Flitcham, Norfolk 23.10.1874 — Oxford 10.5.1941. British Civil Servant in India. Son of Bryan O’M., a minister, and Frances Keppel. Educated in Norwich and Hertford College, Oxford (B.A.). Entered I.C.S. in 1898, worked as Magistrate and Collector in Bengal, then in General and Revenue Department. Retired 1924. C.I.E. Married 1900 Ida Sewell Prichard (b. 1873), one daughter.
Publications: Bengal District Gazetteers . 22. Santal Parganas. Calcutta 1910 & 1925, Purnea. Calcutta 1911, editor of the whole series.
– The Indian Civil Service 1601-1930. 14+310 p. L. 1931.
– Indian Caste Customs. 9+190 p. Cambridge 1932; India’s Social Heritage. 194 p. Cambridge 1934.
– Popular Hinduism: The Religion of the Masses. 8+246 p. Cambridge 1935.
– Edited: Modern India and the West. 12+834 p. O.U.P. 1941.
Sources: Family details in Wikitree; famineanddearth.exeter.ac.uk/displayhtml.html?id=fp_00084_en_bdgazetteerskhulna, photo in blog.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/2017/05/making-connections-through-on-line-collections/, more details in archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.32593/2015.32593.Bankura-District-Gazetteers_djvu.txt.
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