STEELE, Thomas. Walton near Brampton, Cumberland 27.5.1834 — Walton 29.12.1895. British Civil Servant in Sri Lanka. Son of William Steele, a poet. Joined the Ceylon service in 1856. Worked in Kurunegala, Galle and Kandy, then Assistant Government Agent in Hambantota (1869 there). Translator, after retirement in 1876 lived in Carlisle,…
STEINER, Margaret(he). 1??? — 19??. German Student of Indology. Ph.D. 1926 Tübingen under Garbe. In 1939 still working under Hauer at Tübingen. Publications: Diss. Verhältnis der Sāṁkhya-tattva-kaumudī zu den älteren Kommentaren zur Sāṁkhyakārikā. Manuscript of 102 p. 1926. – “Der Ahaṁkāra in den ältesten Upaniṣaden”, Festgabe Garbe 1927, 109-114. Sources:…
STEMPEL, Guido Hermann. Ft.Madison, Iowa ?.5.1868 — Morgan county, Indiana 23.12.1955. U.S. Linguist, mainly Anglist, but also IE. Son of Hugo Christian Steeple (1833–1923) and Anna Barbara Degenhardt (1845–1930). Graduated 1889 from Iowa University, further studies at Leipzig, Chicago and Wisconsin. A.M. 1904 Wisconsin. Taught at Indiana University in Bloomington:…
STEPHENS (Stevens), Thomas (Thomaz/Tomás Estevão/Estevam/Esteves, also known as Padre Busten/Buston). Bushton, Wiltshire 1549 (?) — Salcete 1619. Father. S.J. British Missionary in India, early Marathi scholar and author. Son of merchant Thomas and Jane Stephens, educated at Wiltshire College, then probably studied at Oxford. Adopting Catholic faith he went to Rome…
STEPHENSON, John. Padiham, Lancashire 6.2.1871 — London 2.2.1933. British Physician and Zoologist in India. Also a scholar of Urdu, Arabic and Persian, later also of Pashtu and Pañjabi. Educated at Burnley Grammar School, studies at Owen’s College, Manchester (B.Sc. 1890, B.Chir. 1893). Worked as physician in Manchester and London, joined…
STEVENSON, John Sinclair. Rathgar, Dublin 4.2.1868 — 8.5.1930. Rev. Irish Missionary in India, the husband of —> Margaret Stevenson. Son of Rev. William Fleming Stevenson (1832–1884) and Elizabeth Montgomery Sinclair (1838–1916). Studies at Clifton College in Bristol, at Lincoln College, Oxford, at Edinburgh University and at Princeton Seminary. M.A. Oxford…
STEWART, Caroline Taylor. Memphis Tenn. 18?? — 19??. Miss. U.S. Linguist. Studies at Kansas State University (A.B. 1892), University of Michigan (A.M. 1895) and Bryn Mawr. Further studies of Germanics in Germany. Ph.D. 1901 Berlin. From 1905 Assistant Professor of Germanics at University of Missouri, where she taught many years…
STILL, John. Lambeth, London 1880 — Port Arthur, South Africa 9.9.1941. British Tea Planter Author, and Archaeologist in Sri Lanka. Son of Canon John Still and Anna Nitrill (or Nihill, 1853–1894), educated at Winchester College. In 1897 emigrated to Ceylon and became a tea planter near Dickoya. In 1.1.1902–31.12.1907 Assistant…
STIRLING, Andrew. 13.12.1794 — Calcutta 23.5.1830. British Civil Servant in India. Son of Vice-Admiral Charles Stirling of Woburn, Surrey and Charlotte Grote, educated at Haileybury, 1811-12. To India in 1813. After College of Fort William 1814 Assistant to Resident in Delhi, then Commissioner’s Secretary in Cuttack until 1828. “Persian Secretary…
STOCKS, Cheridah de Beauvoir (née Cheridah Annie Ernst). Mrs. Evercreech, Somerset 6.11.1887 — Northampton 1.5.1971. British Aeronaut and Anthropologist. Daughter of Henry Ernst, a magistrate, and Annie Waring. In 1909 married David de Beauvoir Stocks (d. 1918). In 1911 she was the second British woman to obtain aviation certificate. In…