HANNAH, Herbert Bruce. Calcutta 1862 — Calcutta 10.10.1930. British Lawyer in India. Son of William Cooper Hannah (1817–1878) and Agnes Johnstone. Many years before 1912 studied Tibetan in Darjeeling under Kazi Dawa Samdup. In 1910/25 living in Calcutta as High Court judge.
Publications: A Grammar of the Tibetan Language, Literary and Colloquial. 17+398 p. Calcutta 1912.
– European and Other Race Origins. 491 p. L. 1916; Culture and Kultur Race Origins; Or, the Past Unveiled; being Lectures Delivered at the Calcutta University in 1919. 170 p. Calcutta 1919.
– “Indian Origins”, JASB N.S. 21, 1925, 21-26.
– Also wrote on ancient Egyptian and Roman chronology.
Sources: Stray notes on books; years of life without any further information in heiup.uni-heidelberg.de/journals/index.php/transcultural/article/view/23538/17312; parents and exact death date in ancestry.com.
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