ZEJMAL’, Evgenij Vladislavovič. Moscow 3.10.1932 — St.Petersburg 6.5.1998. Russian Scholar of Kushan History and Archaeology. Son of an official, Vladislav Janovič Zejmal’ (1898–1932) and Nehama Iosifovna Ioffe (1905–1984). Graduated 1955 from Leningrad in history. Kand. ist. nauk 1965, dr. ist. nauk 1985. In 1956-59 Head of Historical Section in Tadzhik…
YOUNGSON, John Forbes White. Pitsligo, Aberdeenshire 6.3.1852 — India 27.6.1920. British (Scottish) Missionary in India. Son of Alexander Youngson and Helen Chapman, educated at Pitsligo and Skene Schools. Studies at Aberdeen: M.A. 1873, B.D. 1884. Joined the Church of Scotland Mission and served from 1875 in Sialkot, then in Gujrat…
YOUNG, Robert. Edinburgh 10.9.1822 — Edinburgh 14.10.1888. British (Scottish) Missionary Printer in India, also a Hebrew Scholar. Son of John Young, a book-binder (Wikipedia) or of George Young, manager of a flour mill (D.N.B., adding that father died when he was child) and Jane Dudgeon. From 1838 worked as printer’s…
YOUNG, Robert. 17?? — 2.7.1823. British Colonial Officer in India. Captain, in 1821-22 Surveyor in the Nizam’s dominions. Married 1819 in Vellore Mary Hazlewood. Buried in Masulipatam. In 1848 the daughter of “the late Capt. Young, Madras army” was married. Publications: “An Account of Some Ancient Graves in the Vicinity of…
YOUNG, Alex Henderson. 18?? — 1916. Rev. British (Scottish) Baptist Missionary in India. M.A. After five years as Pastor of Baptist Church came to Orissa in 1882. Headmaster of the English school in Cuttack (Katak) later known as Stewart School. In this he was succeeded by his younger brother John…
WYNCH, Paul Marriot(t). India 1780 — Hawkhurst, Kent 12.3.1841. British Civil Servant in India. Son of William Alexander Wynch (1750–1819) and Arrhoda Crocket. Joined Bengal Civil Service in 1808, 1809-10 studied Haileybury, 1811 to India. From 1818 Acting Registrar of Sudder Dewany and Nizamut Adawlut at Fort William, then Magistrate…
WROTH, Warwick William. Clerkenwell near London 24.8.1858 — London 26.9.1911. British Numismatist. Son of Rev. Warwick Reed Wroth (1825?–1867) and Sophia Brooks. After King’s School in Canterbury joined British Museum Dept. of coins and medals in 1878. Finally Senior Assistant Keeper of Coins and Medals in British Museum. Died after an…
WRIGHT, Daniel. St Andrews and St Leonards, Fife 28.12.1833 — Aberdeen 15.1.1902. British (Scottish) Physician in India. Surgeon-Major of Medical Service. Son of Captain Alexander Wright (1793–1852, of Indian army) and Johanna Leonora Christina Overbeek, brother of the Arabic scholar William Wright (1830–1889). Educated at St.Andrews. M.A. M.D. Joined Indian…
WREDE, Francis (Franz, later Baron von Wrede). 17?? — 18??. German, long time resident in Kerala (Cochin). Son of a civil servant from Heidelberg, probably came to India in the service of Dutch East India Company, worked in forestry. Back in Europe lived as Baron in Schloss Ellingen. Married. Apparently brother…
WOLLASTON (Woollaston), Matthew William. Calcutta 24.8.1802 — Mirzapore 10.6.1851. Rev. British Teacher and Missionary in India. Son of William Augustus Woollaston and Anne Mendes (1777–1817). Teacher at Government Sanskrit College in Agra, resigned and worked in mission. Ordained 1844. From 1844 Superintendent of Schools in Mirzapore. In 1847-48 visited England and…