MARKBY, William. Duxford, Cambridgeshire 31.5.1829 — Headington, Oxford 15.10.1914. Sir. British Lawyer. Son of Rev. William Henry Markby, Rector of Duxford, and Sophia Randall. Educated at Bury St.Edmunds. From 1846 studies at Merton College, Oxford (B.A. in mathematics 1851, M.A. 1856). Fellow of All Soul’s College and Balliol College. Called…
MARCEL-DUBOIS, Claudie. Tours 19.1.1913 — Paris 1.2.1989. French Pianist and Ethnomusicologist. Studies at Conservatoire national supérieur de musique. In the 1930s also studied anthropology at É.P.H.É. under M. Mauss and P. Masson-Oursel. From 1934 she worked in the Music department of Musée d’ethnographie de Trocadéro, from 1937 in Musée national…
MANN, Stuart Edward (Stewart E. Mann). Nottingham 11.6.1905 — High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire 5.8.1986. British Linguist. Son of Oliver Mann (1880–1959) and Mabel Constance Anderson. Studies at Bristol, graduated 1927 in Germanic studies. In 1929-31 in Tirana teaching English at school and learning Albanian, then teaching English at Masaryk University in…
MAMMITZSCH, Ulrich Hans Richard. Rodishain, Thuringia 15.12.1935 — Bellingham, Wash. 19.11.1990. U.S. (German-born) Sinologist and Scholar of Tibetan and Japanese Buddhism. Son of Hans Richard Mammitzsch and his wife Helene. After school of Frankesche Stiftung studied at Halle, in 1957 escaped from East Germany to West and continued studies at Hamburg…
MAJOR, Richard Henry. Jersey (Wikipedia: Shoreditch, London) 3.10.1818 — Kensington. London 25.6.1891. British Geographer. Son of the elder R. H. Major, a physician, and his wife Elizabeth. The father died when he was three and he was brought up by his paternal grandfather. School in London (Merchant Taylors’ School), then…
MAINE, Henry James Sumner. Kelso, Roxburghshire 15.8.1822 — Cannes, France 3.2.1888. Sir. British Lawyer and Legal Historian in India. Son of Dr. James Maine and Eliza Fell, educated at Christ’s Hospital, London. From 1840 studies at Pembroke College, Cambridge (B.A. 1844). Called to the bar from Lincoln’s Inn 1850. In…
MACREADY, William Charles. Elstree, Hertsmere Borough, Hertfordshire 7.8.1832 — Puttalam, North-Western Sri Lanka 26.11.1871. British Civil Servant in Sri Lanka. Son of the well-known actor William Charles Macready (1793–1873) and actress Catherine Frances Atkins (1806–1852). After Westminster School studies at Oxford (Christ Church) and Haileybury. From 1854 in Ceylon Civil…
MACKENZIE, David Neil. London 8.4.1926 — Bangor, Wales 13.10.2001. British Iranian Scholar in Germany. Professor in Göttingen. Son of David MacKenzie, educated in Slough, Windsor and Cambridge. In the WW II his mother and sister went to Canada, but he remained with his father. From November 1943 to December 1947 voluntary…
MACDONALD, Robert Mackenzie. 11.9.1825 — Kensington, London 3.2.1891. British Colonial Officer in India. Director of Public Instruction, Madras Presidency. Lieutenant-General. Married Caroline Helsham (1835–1865), one son and one daughter. Publications: “Vemana”, MJLS3:2, 1866, 43-62 (on Ch. Ph. Brown’s translation, The Verses of Vemana, Moral, Religious and Satirical. Madras 1829). Sources: Scanty…
MACDONALD, David (Dorje). Darjeeling 1870/73? — Darjeeling 6.7.1962. British Trade Agent in Tibet. Son of a Scottish father, a planter, and Sikkimese (Lepcha) mother. The father left when he was six and he was educated by his mother as a Buddhist, but later took Christianity. Worked in Bengal vaccination service.…