STEPHENS, Celeus Leon. Westminster 11.1.1847 — Bogn, Bengal 21.12.1919. Rev. British Calvinist Missionary in India. Son of George Stephens and Mary Franklin Arnold, grew up in Carmarthen (Wales). Educated at Trevecca College in Pembroke. Ordained priest 1870. Pastor in Pembrokeshire 1870-72 and London 1872-78. Member of the Welsh Calvinistic Methodists’…
STEPHEN, James Grant. Calcutta 28.7.1819 — Cheltenham, Gloucestershire 22.2.1897. British Colonial Officer. Major. Son of William George Stephen (1792–1823), captain of Bengal Engineers, and Esther Thomason (1798–1880). Served in Bengal Army, Captain 1859, retired 1856. Now studies at Cambridge (B.A. 1861, M.A. 1864). From 1860 a few years (to 1863?)…
STEEL, Flora Annie (née Fl. A. Webster). Sudbury, Middlesex 2.4.1847 — Minchinhampton, Gloucestershire 12.4.1929. Mrs. British Author, spent 22 years in India. Daughter of George Webster and Isabella MacCallum. In 1867 married Henry William Steel (1840–1923) of I.C.S. and left for India. They lived mainly in the Punjab until 1889, then…
STAUDE, Wilhelm. Vienna 1904 — Vienna ?.3.1977. Austrian Art Historian and Anthropologist in France. Son of a merchant, lost very early his father. Gymnasium in Vienna, matriculated 1923. Studies of Oriental Art History at Vienna, Leipzig and Munich. Ph.D. 1935 Munich. From 1932 stayed mainly in Paris. During the war…
STARKEY, Samuel Cross. London 3.3.1807 — Wrenbury Hall, Cheshire 28.3.1888. British Colonial Officer in India. Major. Son of John Cross Starkey of E.I.C. and Gracia Turnbull Penman. Captain, then Major. At his father’s death in 1855 inherited the property in Cheshire and returned to England, living the rest of his life…
STARK(E), James (or John?). Kirkcudbright 5.5.1798 — Troqueer Holm near Dumfries 8.11.1879. Hon. British (Scottish) Lawyer in Sri Lanka. Son of William Starke and Anne Smith. From 1824 lawyer in Edinburgh. Queen’s Advocate in Ceylon 1838-40, then Puisne Justice of Supreme Court in Colombo (still 1849). In 1845 the first…
STAMM, Friedrich. Schwarzenraben, Kr. Lippstadt 22.8.1889 — 19??. German Student of IE Linguistics. Ph.D. 1919 Münster. Worked in Münster University Library, from 1921 in Göttingen University Library. Publications: Diss. Die denominativen Verben primären Charakters in den indogermanischen Sprachen. 3+80 p. Münster 1919. Sources: Birth and work places in Zentralblatt für Bibliothekswesen 1919, 290…
STACY, Lewis Robert. Oxford 11.12.1787 — Neemuch (Nimach), M.Pr. 18.7.1848. British Colonial Officer in India. Son of Rev. Henry Peter Stacy (1760–1808) and Ann Keele (1757–1799). Joined E.I.C.’s army in 1804, served in different parts of northern India. Participated in the first Afghan war. Finally Lieutenant-Colonel of Bengal Native Infantry.…
SPRUNG, George Mervyn Carter (also known as George M. C. Sprung). Winnipeg 1913 — Peterborough, Ontario 5.1.2000. Canadian Buddhist Scholar. Son of Benjamin Franklin Sprung (1871–1937) and Elizabeth Ann Carter. Studies at Manitoba (B.A.), Toronto (M.A.) and Berlin (Ph.D. 1939). Back in Canada volunteered in army and, speaking fluent German, was…
SPRING, Frederic. 17?? — 18??. Rev. British Missionary of Church Missionary Society in India. M.A. Chaplain of Madras Army in Tellicherry from before 1817, when he founded a school there. Returned to the U.K. in 1824. The first name is somewhat uncertain, some Internet sources call him Francis. On his…