WELLESZ, Emmy (née Emilia Franziska Stross) .Vienna 8.1.1889 — Vienna 13.6.1987. Austrian Art Historian. Daughter of Ludwig Stross (1852–1913), a cloth dealer, and Vilma Propper, a Jewish family. Grew up in Vienna. From 1907 studied art history at Vienna. Married 1908 Egon Wellesz (1885–1974), a composer and musicologist, with Jewish background.…
WEINRICH, Friedrich. 28.3.1905 — 8.6.1960. German Scholar of Religion. Ph.D. 1928 Göttingen (or Marburg, under R. Otto?). Then at Jena Theological faculty, from 1939 as PD and 1943 as apl. Professor für Allgemeine Religionsgeschichte. During WW II in army. A Nazi. Publications: Diss. Das ‘Gokapilīyam’. Ein philosophisches Gespräch zwischen Kapila und Syūmaraśmi…
WEBB, William Wilfred. 1858 — 18.11.1911. British (Scottish?) Physician in India. Studies at Aberdeen. Joined Indian Medical Service in 1882. Surgeon-Captain of Bengal army, served in Rajasthan. Retired 1894 for health reasons. M.D. 1894. In 1893-1902 Secretary of the Army Medical School at Netley, then in Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire. Married 1888…
WATERFIELD, William Garrow. London 14.8.1832 — Teignbridge, Devon 24.1.1907. British Civil Servant and Poet in India. Son of Thomas Nelson Waterfield (1799–1862), registrar in bankruptcy court, and Elizabeth Bentall. Educated at Haileybury. Arrived in India in 1852, 1857 he was in Revenue Survey in Berhampore. In 1859-64 in financial department. After…
WARREN, John (Jean Baptiste François Joseph de Warren, Count de Warren). Leghorn 21.9.1769 — Pondichéry 9.2.1830. British-French Colonial Officer in India. Lieutenant-Colonel. Son of Count Henri Hyacinthe de Warren (1732–1781) and Christine Walburge de Meurers (1737–1819). In 1793 moved to London and soon went to Calcutta. After a failed attempt…
WARD, Susan R. (formerly Benjamin, née Stone). Belcherton, MA 5.2.1822 — Calcutta 27.4.1884. American Baptist Missionary in Assam. Married 1848 Rev. Judson Benjamin (1819–1855) and came with him to Burma. They had three children, two died young After several years as widow she married 1860 Rev. William Ward (d. 1873),…
WARD, George Ernest. Great Bedwyn, Wiltshire 20.9.1837 (or 1827?) — Southsea, Hampshire 31.1.1915. British Civil Servant in India. Son of John Ward (1795–1861) and Ann Merriman (1802–1844). Educated in Marlborough, studies at Queen’s College and Wadham College, Oxford. M.A. Joined I.C.S. 1861, served in North-Western Provinces (i.al. Meerut). Married 1861…
WALL, George. North Shields, Northumberland 22.12.1820 — London 16.12.1894. British Merchant, Coffee Planter, Politician, amateur Astronomer, Botanist and Humanitarian in Sri Lanka. Son of Rev. George Wall, a Methodist Minister, and Ann Lytham, educated at Harrow. Worked in an engineering firm, in 1846 left for Ceylon because of health problems.…
WALDSCHMIDT, Rose Leonore Marie (née Ohrlich). Berlin 21.5.1895 — 1988. German Indologist. Daughter of Bernhard Max Richard Ohrlich (1862–1944), auditor and tax consultant, and Pauline Katharina Herrmann, educated in Berlin. She was a textile designer and then specialized on the history of South Asian handicrafts. From 1927 wife of —>…