EDMUNDS, Albert Joseph. Tottenham, Middlesex 21.11.1857 — Cheltenham, PA 1941. British Librarian in the U.S.A. Son of Thomas Edmunds (d. 1880) and Rebecca Hallat (d. 1926). Educated 1867-73 at Croyden Friends Boarding School. Graduated 1877 from University of London. In 1879-83 secretary to astronomer T. W. Blackhouse. Moved to the U.S.A.…
DOBBINS, Keith Walton. Stamford, Texas 14.8.1942 — Camden, Ark. 21.4.2006. U.S. Historian and Numismatician. Son of Alfred Vernon Dobbins (1910–1992) and Grace Mildred Connell (1911–2004). Graduated from Camden High School 1961, studied at Hawaii (M.A.) and Canberra. Ph.D. 1972 A.N.U. in history. In 1976 at University of Sydney in Australia,…
DIXON, Henry. Naples, Italy 29.3.1824 — London 16.3.1883. British Colonial Officer in India. Son of Captain William Dixon and Cecilia Pierina Gironci. From 1839 studied at Royal Military Academy in Woolwich. Served 1842-72 in Madras Native Infantry. Lieutenant Colonel. An amateur photographer who took hundreds of pictures in Orissa, Mysore…
DELLA SANTINA, Peter C. U.S.A. 1950 — Penang, Malaysia 14.10.2006. U.S. Buddhologist. Grew up in Connecticut. Became blind because of glaucoma when about 11 and later turned to Buddhism. For a while in Spain, then as teacher in Peru. Studied at Wesleyan University (B.A. 1972 in Religion). M.A. 1974 and…
CLARK, Mary Mead (née Mary Jane Mead). Amenia, NY 1832 — 1924. U.S. Missionary in India. Daughter of John King Mead (1799–1873) and Jane Amanda Sutherland (1807–1885). Married 1858 the missionary —> Edward Winter Clark (1830–1913), participated then in his work in Nagaland. Their only daughter died young. They retired…
CAMPS, Arnulf Petrus Henricus Johannes Maria (Arnulf Pierre Camps). Eindhoven 1.2.1925 — Nijmegen 5.3.2006. O.F.M. Dutch Historian of Catholic Mission. After Augustinian gymnasium in Eindhoven joined Franciscan novitiate in 1943. Ordained priest 1950. B.D. 1951 Nijmegen. D.D. 1957 Fribourg (Switzerland), in Missiology. In 1957-61 Professor of Missiology and Islamology at…
BYROM, Thomas Billy. England 1941 — Kashi Ashram, Sebastian, Florida 1991. British Translator. Studied at Oxford (Balliol College, M.A. in English Literature). Ph.D. Harvard. Taught at Harvard, Bennington, and as J.R.R Tolkien Professor in English Language and Literature at Oxford. In 1974 met Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati and as her pupil…
BUCKLAND, Charles Edward. Chittagong 19.9.1847 — Kensington, London 1.10.1941. British Civil Servant in India. Son of of Charles Thomas Buckland (1824–1894) of I.C.S. and Mary Ann Letitia Ricketts. Educated at Laleham and Eton College, studies rom 1866 at Balliol College, Oxford (B.A. 1866). Joined I.C.S. in 1870. Called to the…
BRIGHT, William Oliver (Bill). Oxnard, Calif. 13.8.1928 — Louisville, Color. 15.10.2006. U.S. Linguist and Indologist. Professor in Los Angeles. Son of a butcher. Graduated 1945 from Oxnard High School, where he showed an early interest in languages. Studies of medicine, soon of Spanish and linguistics at University of California in…
BOYCE, Nora Elizabeth Mary. Darjeeling, India 2.8.1920 — London 4.4.2006. British (with Irish background) Iranian Scholar. Professor in London. Daughter of William H. Boyce, judge at Calcutta High Court, and Nora Gardiner. Family returned soon to the U.K. Educated at Wimbledon High School and Cheltenham Ladies College, then studies from 1940…