WERTZ, Dorothy Corbett (née D. Corbett). Buffalo, NY 18.5.1937 — Cancun, Benito Juarez, Mexico 29.4.2003. U.S. Scholar of Religion. Daughter of William Joseph Corbett (1893–1942) and Helen Leggett Kirk (1899–1982). B.A. Radcliffe College, then studied Social Anthropology at the London School of Economics. M.A. Radcliffe. Ph.D. Harvard, in Religion. She…
WEINREICH, Uriel. Wilno, Poland (now Vilnius. Lithuania) 23.5.1926 — New York City 30.3.1967. U.S. (born Polish Jew) Linguist. Son of linguist Max Weinreich (1894–1969), a specialist of sociolonguistics and Yiddish, originally from Courland, and Regina Szabad (1898–1974), a teacher. Came via Denmark to New York with his father in 1940,…
WAUCHOPE, Robert Stuart (until 1920 R. S. Wahab). Bengal 20.3.1887 — 1943. British Colonial Officer in India. Son of a Colonel Robert Alexander Wahab (1855–1921) of Indian army and Catherine Mary Ward (d. 1896). Joined army in 1906, 1910 appointed to Survey of India. After military duties in 1914-21 its…
WARDEN, John. 1805? — after 1853. British Civil Servant in India. Worked as police in Bombay Presidency, later (1845) judge in Bombay and Poona (Pune). Married Ella Maria Smith (1804–1829) and then 1831 in Bombay Harriet Lodwick (1812–1853), four sons and two daughters. Publications: “On the Customs of Gosawees or Gosaeens”,…
WARD, Charles Henry Spurgeon. Halton by Leeds, Yorkshire 21.7.1876 — Wells, Somerset 17.3.1957. Rev. British Missionary in Sri Lanka. Son of Amos Ward (1848–1930) and Zilpah Whitaker. Worked in Ceylon in 1902-35. then returned to the U.K. Married 1906 in Sri Lanka Mabel Jane Straughan Lawrence (1876–1937), children, and as…
WARD, Benjamin Swain. 1786 — Cape Town 19.6.1835. British Colonial Officer in India. Son of Francis Swain Ward (1736–1794). Lieutenant of Madras infantry. In 1799-1810 worked under C. Mackenzie in Mysore survey. Together with Ltn. —> P. E. Conner conducted the survey of Travancore and Cochin 1810-21. He was also…
WALKER, George David. 23.9.1884 (1894?) — 1971. British (Scottish) Colonial Officer in India. Deputy Commissioner of Garo Hills in 1923-29. In 1938 apparently still in Assam, in 1949 living in Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire. Publications: A dictionary of the Mikir language. 462 p. Shillong 1925. – “The Garo Manufacture of…
WALKER, Alexander. Collessie, Fife 12.5.1764 — Edinburgh 5.4.1831. British (Scottish) Colonial Officer in India. Eldest son of Rev. William Walker (1736–1771) of Church of Scotland, and Margaret Manderston (1728–1810), the father died when the boy was seven. Education and studies at St.Andrews. E.I.C.’s cadet 1780, served in Bombay. In 1785…
WACHSBERGER, Arthur. Troppau, Silesia (now Opava in Czechia) 7.5.1891 — Haifa 21/22.6.1943. Austrian Art Historian and Architect. Son of a Jewish merchant, Hermann Wachsberger (1857–1932?) and his wife Augusta. After school in Troppau studied at Vienna. Ph.D. 1914 Vienna (under Strzygowski). Moved to Köln, worked as Assistant in Museum für…