CUENDET, Georges

CUENDET, Georges. Geneva 5.9.1897 — 1980. Swiss Linguist interested in Sanskrit. Educated at Collège de Genève, studies at universities of Geneva (Bally), Basel, and Paris (Meillet at É.P.H.É., also É.L.O.V.). Dr. ès lettres 1924 Geneva. In the 1930s teacher of Latin and Greek at Collège de Nyon and in 1938-63…

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CSOMA DE KŐRÖS, Alexander

CSOMA DE KŐRÖS, Alexander (Kőrösi Csoma Sándor). Kőrös, Kovászna, Transylvania (now Chiuruş, Covasna in Romania) 27.3.1784 — Darjeeling 11.4.1842. Hungarian Tibetologist, in Ladakh and India 1822-42. Born of poor parents, András Csoma, a peasant and soldier, and Krisztina Getse (Ilona Göcz), belonging to the military nobility known as Székely (Sicules). Birth…

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CROSBY, Josiah

CROSBY, Josiah. Falmouth, Cornwall ?.5.1880 — 4.12.1958. Sir. British Diplomat interested in South-East Asian History. Son of Captain J. P. Cr. and his wife Christina, educated in Newcastle. Studies at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge (B.A. 1902, M.A. 1928). Came to Thailand as young cadet in 1904, spent many years…

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CROOKE, William

CROOKE, William. Macroom, co. Cork 6.8.1848 — Cheltenham, Gloucestershire 25.10.1923. British (Irish) Civil Servant and Anthropologist in India. Eldest son of Warren Cr., M.D., of an originally English family long resident in Ireland. Educated at the grammar school in Tipperary, studied at Trinity College in Dublin (B.A.). Joined the I.C.S.…

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CRAWFURD, John

CRAWFURD, John. Islay, Hebrides 13.8.1783 — South Kensington, London 11.5.1868. British (Scottish) Physician, Colonial Officer and South-East Asian Scholar. Son of the physician Samuel Cr. and Margaret Campbell, educated at Bowmore. Then studies of medicine at Edinburgh, M.D. From 1803 served as an army medical officer chiefly in Upper India…

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CRAVEN, Roy C., Jr.

CRAVEN, Roy Curtis, Jr. Cherokee Bluffs, Alabama 29.7.1924 — 30.5.1996. U.S. Art Historian, also painter, sculpturer and photographer. Son of R.C.Cr. Sr. and Edna Morris. Associate Professor of Art at the University of Florida in Gainesville, from 1964 acting director of the new University of Florida Gallery. Then Professor at…

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COXE, William Henry

COXE, William Henry. 1840 — 18.12.1869, when 29. British Classical Scholar. The eldest son of Henry Octavius Coxe (1811–1881), the Librarian of Bodleiana, and Charlotte Esther Turner. Studies of Classics and Sanskrit at Balliol College, Oxford. Characterised as a Sanskrit scholar, but from 1861 worked in British Museum as Assistant…

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COX, Edmund C.

COX, Edmund Charles. Exeter, Devon 27.2.1856 — Chiswick, London 11.3.1935. Sir, 15th Baronet. British Police Officer in India. Son of —> George William Cox (1827–1902), the 14th Baronet and a historian, and Emily Maria Stirling. “Educated at Marlborough and Trinity College, Cambridge. Appointed Assistant Inspector-General of Police in Bombay, 1877.”…

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COX, Arthur Ditmas

COX, Arthur Ditmas. 21.3.1870 — 3.5.1939. British Colonial Officer in India. Lieutenant-Colonel. Son of Henry William Cox, of Madras army, and Lucy Emma Halliday. Served in the Punjab (1917). Married with Evelyn (1875–1944), one son. Publications: Notes on Pushtu Grammar. 12+84+70 p. L. 1911. Sources: Not in Br. Biogr. Arch.…

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COWGILL, Warren Crawford

COWGILL, Warren Crawford. Crangeville, Idaho 19.12.1929 — New Haven 20.6.1985. U.S. IE Linguist. Professor at Yale. Son of George Dewey C. and Ruby Eugenia Smith. Educated at Stanford (B.A. 1952 in classics, under H. Fraenkel) and, now studying IE and linguistics under Tedesco, Thieme et al., at Yale (M.A. 1953,…

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