BUTLER, John. India? 1843? — Lak Nuti near Gologhat, Assam 7.1.1876, when 33. British Colonial Officer in India. Son of the elder —> John Butler. Captain, in 1870-72 Deputy Commissioner of the Naga Hills, then Political Agent there. Led several early expeditions to Naga and Manipur Hills. Died after having…
BUTLER, John. Lip hot, Hampshire 1809 — Hampshire 22.5.1874. British Colonial Officer in India. Served in India in 1837-51 in Bengal Native Infantry. In 1840 transferred from “Mynpooree in Upper India” to Gauhati (“Gowahatty”), Assam (annexed by the British only little before). Worked as Assistant to the Agent to the Governor…
BRANDES, Jan Laurens Andries. Rotterdam 13.1.1857 — Batavia (Jakarta) 26.6.1906. Dutch Indonesian Philologist and Archaeologist. Son of a Lutheran priest, Johannes Henrikus Br. and Maria Cornelia Gude. Aften school in Amsterdam studied 1874-79 theology (but also Sanskrit) at Amsterdam Athenaeum (now A. university), in 1879-83 Indology at Leiden (in preparation…
BRAUNHOLTZ, Gustav Ernst Karl. Cambridge 19.3.1887 — 21.4.1967. British Linguist (IE and Classic). Son of Eugen Gustav Br. (1859–1941), German academician who moved in 1884 to Cambridge (note his diss. Die erste nichtchristliche Parabel des Barlaam und Josaphat. Ihre Herkunft und Verbreitung. 8+110 p. Halle 1884). Studies at Cambridge (B.A.…
BRANDI, Mario. Trieste 11.12.1891 — 1943/44?. Italian, probably a Theosophist, son of Salvatore Brandi and Elisa Iacchia. He authored several mystic books, two in collaboration with Emma Tedeschi (1896–1943/44?). In November 1943 both were arrested in Nervi (Genoa) as Jews and sent to Auschwitz. Publications: Lo Yoga della fede: Bhagavadgītā…
BOYLE, John Archibald. 1845? — India (Madras?) 9.2.1875. British Civil Servant in South India. Educated at Radley College (Oxfordshire), until 1858. Then in Madras Civil Service. Publications: “Telugu Ballad Poetry”, IA 3, 1874, 1-6; “Notes on castes in Southern India”, Ibid. 287-289. Sources: Tombstone inscription in J. J. Cotton, List…
BOWLES, Charles (then Charles Bowles Shakespear). Leicestershire 1811 — 1899. British Teacher of Hindustani. Son of Charles B. and Mary Shakespear, nephew and heir of —> John Shakespear. Served many years as his uncle’s assistant and succeeded him as the Professor of Hindustani at Addiscombe. After Shakespear’s death in 1858…
BOXER, Charles Ralph. Sandown, Isle of Wight 8.4.1904 — St.Albans, Hertfordshire 27.4.2000. British Historian of Early Colonial Asia. Son of Colonel Hugh Edward Richard B. and Jane Patterson. Grew up in Dorset. Educated at Wellington College and Sandhurst. In 1923-47 served in Lincolnshire Regiment, first in Northern Ireland. He interested…
BOUCHET, Jean Venant. Fontenay-le-Comte (Vendée) 1655 — 1732. Father. S.J. French Missionary in Thailand and India. First in Thailand, where he arrived with the French embassy in 1688. When the Jesuits were forced to leave in 1688 he entered Madurai mission. Following Roberto de Nobili’s methods lived as a sannyāsin.…
BOSWELL, John Alexander Corrie. India 26.10.1835 — Kensington, London 6.1.1872. British Colonial Civil Servant in India. Son of Robert Bruce B. and Susan Anne Carnegie. From 1855 in Madras Civil Service. In the early 1870s the Officiating Collector of the Kistnah district, but had soon to retire because of health…