alphabet – Page 69 – Persons of Indian Studies by Prof. Dr. Klaus Karttunen

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WARD, Susan R.

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

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

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

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 —>…

WADE, T. Russell

WADE, Thomas Russell. Waldron, Wealden dt., East Sussex 1839? — Eastbourne, East Sussex 23.10.1914, when 75. Rev. British Missionary in India. Educated at C.M.S. College in Islington. Arrived at Calcutta 1862, ordained there 1863. In 1862-1907 worked for Church Missionary Society in Peshawar (1862-72), Lahore (1872-76), Srinagar (1876-82), Amritsar (1882-1902) and…

WAGNER, Paul

WAGNER, Paul. 1868 — 1951 (?). Rev. German Missionary in India. Worked from 1895 for Gossner Mission in Purulia, Chota Nagpur. In 1915 WW I forced him back to Germany. Married 1897 Marie Hahn, the daughter of —> Ferdinand Hahn (1846–1910), children. Publications: “Some Kolarian Riddles current among the Mundaris in…

WADE, John Peter

WADE, John Peter. Ireland 1762 — Calcutta 14.10.1802. British (Scottish or Irish?) Physician in India. Studied medicine at Edinburgh. From 1784 Assistant Medical Surgeon in E.I.C.’s service, first in Benares, then in Chunar. In 1792-94 in Assam. Married 1791 Rachel Carruthers (1765–1849) in Edinburgh during a furlough, one daughter and…

VOYSEY, Henry Wesley

VOYSEY, Henry Wesley. Salisbury, Wiltshire 16.10.1791 — Sulkea Ghat, Howrah 19.4.1824. British Physician, Geologist and Mineralogits in India. Son of Baptist minister Henry Voysey (1753–1829?) and Ann Maria Annesley Ellison (d. 1836). Studied medicine and geology in London and Aberdeen. Dr. In 1815 served as military hospital assistant, then left for…

VOST, William

VOST, William. ?.11.1861 — London 1947. British (Scottish) Army Physician in India. Son of Henry Vost (1823–1877) and Isobel Charlotte Broad. Medical studies at Glasgow. From 1887 served in North India. Surgeon-Captain (1893). Retired as Lieutenant-Colonel in 1913. Married 1910 Gladys McKechnie (1886–1969), two children. Publications: Numismatic articles in JASB and NC in…