TOWERS, Robert Mason. Grange, County Tipperary 29.6.1840 — Cambridge 16.4.1907. British Civil Servant in India. Son of Rev. Robert Towers. School in Kilkenny. Studies at Trinity College, Dublin (M.A.), then in I.C.S. From 1874 Judge in Bhagalpur and Monghyr. Retired. From 1888 Professor of Bengali at King’s College, London and…
TORRENS, Henry D’Oyley (D’Oyly). Meerut 24.2.1833 — London 1.12.1889. Sir. British Colonial Officer in India. Son of —> H. W. Torrens (1806–1852) and Eliza Mary Roberts (1808–1834). Joined army in 1849, Colonel 1864, Major-General 1869 and Lieutenant-General 1884. Served in Crimean war and in 1857 uprising. Travels in Ladakh, etc.…
TOMASCHEK, Wilhelm (Vilém Tomášek). Olmütz, Moravia (now Olomouc in Czechia) 26.5.1841 — Vienna 9.9.1901. Austrian (Czech) Geographer, Classical and Oriental Scholar. Son of gymnasium teacher Johann Adolf Tomaschek (d. 1849) and Katharina Kasparvan Radostin, a German family with Czech name. Gymnasium in Vienna. Studies of classical philology, linguistics (Fr. Müller, Miklosich),…
TOLBORT, Thomas William Hooper. Dorchester (?) 1842 — Dorchester 1883, when 41. British Civil Servant in India. Son of Hooper Tolbort (1804–1842) and his wife Joanna (1805–1873). I.C.S. examination in 1862. Served in Bengal. Retired for health reasons and returned to the U.K., but died soon. A friend of Thomas…
TIMMER, Barbara Catharina Jacoba. Haarlem 22.11.1896 — Amsterdam 16.9.1978. Dutch Student of Classics and Indology. Daughter of neurologist Jan Timmer (1857–1933) and Anna Maria Loman (1857–1936). After school in Haarlem studies of Greek under Cohen and Indology under Faddegon at Amsterdam, also attended Vogel’s classes at Leiden. Ph.D. 1930 Amsterdam. Her…
THORNTON, Edward Parry. 7.10.1811 — London 10.12.1893. British Civil Servant in India. Son of John Thornton of Clapham and Eliza Parry. Educated at Haileybury and Charterhouse, joined Bengal C.S. in 1830. Served in Goruckpore (Gorakhpur), in 1842-45 on furlough in England. Then Magistrate and Collector in Mathura, from 1848 in Serampore.…
THOMPSON, Charles Stewart. Easington, Durham 17.8.1851 — Kerwara, Chhatarpur dt., M.Pr. 19.5.1900. Rev. British Medical Missionary in India. Son of farmer George Thompson and his wife Elizabeth. Medical training at Islington College. Ordained priest in 1880 and sent to India by Church Missionary Society, stationed at Kherwara Chhaoni in Rajputana,…
THOBURN, W. L. 18?? — 1???. Perhaps related to the U.S. Methodist missionary bishop James Mill Thoburn (1836–1922), who had worked in Lucknow and had several children. His sister, Isabella Thoburn (1840–1901) founded 1870 a college for women in Lucknow. Publications: The English–Urdu Dictionary. Lucknow 1898. Sources: prabook.com & Wikipedia on…
THIMM, Carl Albert. 1856 — 1932. British Colonial Officer. Captain of 2nd London Rifles, served in South Africa, then worked as librarian. myheritage.com has C. A. Thimm born 1855 to Franz Louis Julius and Horatia Thimm, married 1881 in London Annie Helen, died 1932. In another part of the same, C.…
THESLEFF, Arthur. Viipuri (now Vyborg in Russia) 5.3.1871 — Stockholm 17.12.1920. Finnish Botanist (Mycologist) and Gipsy Scholar. Son of Colonel Fredrik Vilhelm Thesleff (1824–1893) and Olga Maria Thesleff (1830–1893). Grew up in family manor outside Viipuri, from 1886 gymnasium in Helsinki. From 1890 studied botany at Helsinki. He became interested in…