LANDON, Perceval. Hastings, Sussex 29.3.1869 — 23.7.1927. British Author, Traveller and Journalist. Son of Rev. Edward Henry L., of Huguenot descent, and Caroline Perceval. Educated at Forest School, Walthamstow. From 1888 studies at Hertford College, Oxford, graduated 1892. Called to the bar from Inner Temple. In 1899-1900 war correspondent of The…
LAMBRICK, Samuel.1768 — 1854. Rev. British Missionary in Sri Lanka. In 1817 left for Ceylon with his wife in company of J. Knight, R. Major and B. Ward. After a time in Kandy in 1822 founded Kotta as the centre of the Church Missionary Society near Colombo and opened a…
LAMBERT, Hester Marjorie. St.Margaret’s, Middlesex 5.11.1895 — London 29.9.1976. British Indologist. Daughter of James John L. and Florence Louisa Legge. M.A. In 1938-63 Senior Lecturer in Marathi at S.O.A.S., then retired. Unmarried. Publications: Textbooks of English in the 1930s. – Marathi Language Course. 14+301 p. Oxford 1943. – Jñāneśvarī. Transl. from Marathi by V.…
LACEY, William Carey (or Charles?). 18?? — 1???. Rev. Baptist Missionary in India. Son of Charles Lacey (1798-1853), also missionary in Orissa (from 1823), and his wife Ann. Himself resided in Cuttack at least from 1851. Married 1859 Sarah Frances Joest (?). Still active 1864. Publications: Ooryah Grammar. 115 p. Cuttack…
LA FUENTE, Marguerite.18?? — 1958?. Mme. French Bauddha. Founder-member of Les amis de bouddhisme in Paris from 1927. Visited Ceylon and other Buddhist countries and learned much from bhikkhus. In 1960 Lu K’uan Yu dedicated his Ch’an and Zen Teaching to the memory of Upāsikā MLF who had encouraged him in 1956.…
LAET, Joannes de (Latin: Ioannes Latius). 1581 (not 1593) — buried 15.12.1649. Flemish Geographer, Philologist and Naturalist, who wrote from secondary sources a well known book on India. Son of a cloth merchant, Hans de Laet, who as a protestant fled to north, when the Spanish took the town. Educated…
LADONNE, Justin Arthur. Bordeaux 20.5.1832 — Bassens, Gironde 30.8.1889. French self-taught Sanskritist in Bordeaux, where he gave a “cours libre de sanskrit” at Faculté de Lettres in 1886–89.Son of Erasme L. (d. 1833) and Marthe Durant. He was a landowner and belonged to local scholarly societies. Married 1864 Marie Louise Laure Balguerie,…
LINDACH, Hans, nom-de-plume of —> WELLER, Hermann.
LEUPOL, Louis —> LELOUP DE CHEROY, François
LAWTON, S. K. = LAWTON, Swaminathan Kanakaratnam, a Tamil photographer and archaeologist in Sri Lanka (fl. 1871).