BROADLEY, Alexander Meyrick. Bradpole, Dorset 19.7.1847 — Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire 16.4.1916. British Civil Servant and Lawyer in India. Son of Rev. Alexander Broadley, vicar of Bradpole, and Frances Jane Meyrick. Educated in Warminster and Marlborough and in Switzerland. After law studies at Lincoln’s Inn entered I.C.S. in 1869. Assistant, then Collector…
BRIGGS, John. Madapollam, Madras 18.9.1785 — Burgess Hill, Sussex 27.4.1875. British Colonial Officer and Oriental Scholar, 1801-35 in India. Son of physician James (or John?) Briggs (1758–1830) and Martha Pybus (1758–1788), came to England 1789. Educated at Eton 1794-99. From 1801 in Madras infantry, participated in both Maratha wars. In…
BRIGGS, Henry George. Bombay 20.10.1824 — Bombay 4.7.1872. British Merchant, Traveller, and Orientalist. Son of Henry Briggs. In 1843 travelled in South Africa, in 1845 in China. In 1846 settled at the office of Briggs & Co. in Bombay. For a while lived in Karachi (1854/55), then from 1856 Assistant…
BRIGGS, George Weston. North Branch, Michigan 21.9.1874 — Madison, NJ 18.4.1966. U.S. Missionary and Indologist. Son of David C. Briggs and Emily E. Weston. Educated at Northwestern University (B.S. 1902, M.S. 1905). Ordained as priest in 1904. Methodist missionary in India 1903-08, 1909-12, and 1915-25. Professor of English Literature at…
BRIGEL, Johann Jakob. Erpfingen, Württemberg 4.12.1832 — Engstlatt 4.12.1887. Rev. German Missionary in India, belonged to Basel Mission in Mangalore. Spent 16 years in India. Retired in 1875 and became minister in his native Württemberg. Married, children. Publications: A Grammar of the Tulu language. 139 p. Mangalore 1872; mission publications.…
BRIESS, Erwin Eduard. Olmütz (Olomouc), Moravia 9.5.1886 — 1946. Austrian Journalist and former Student of Indology in Switzerland. Swiss citizen. Grew up in Zürich, where family moved when he was rwo years old. Studies of Oriental Philology at Vienna, Ph.D. 1912. Returned to Zürich in 1913 and was working for…
BREWSTER, Earl Henry. Chagris Falls, Ohio 21.9.1878 — Almora 19.9.1957. U.S. Artist (Painter) and Author. Educated in Cleveland and N.Y. Schools of Art. Worked as painter in New York, had exhibitions. In 1910 married Achsah Barlow (an artist, 1879–1945, one daughter), now began long time of nomadic life mostly in…
BRENNAND, William. Clitheroe, Lancastershire 1818? — Wellington, Somerset ?.2.1897. British Teacher in India, Principal of Dacca College (1856). In 1896 had already been 23 years in retirement, living in Somerset. Married 1846 Iris Twisden (1827–1893), two daughters and one son. Apparently he claims a common Central Asian origin for the…
BRELOER, Bernhard. Herne, Westfalen 8.11.1894 — Tbilisi 20.4.1947. German Indologist. Professor in Berlin. Son of mill owner Bernhard Breloer and Auguste Lueg. Participated in the WW I. Studied a brief time at Jena, then at Bonn (under Jacobi and Kirfel) and Munich (W. Geiger) Indology, also classical philology, and musicology.…
BREEKS, Susan Maria (née Denison). Woolwich, Kent 16.3.1841 — Brough, Cumbria 22.4.1923. Britishwoman in India, from 1863 wife of —> James Wilkinson Breeks (1830–1872). Daughter of Colonel Sir William Thomas Denison (1804–1871) and Caroline Hornby, marriage 1863. After her husband’s death in 1872 she edited his report on the tribes…