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…
STEINTHAL, Paul. 18?? — 19??. German Indologist. Ph.D in 1881 Leipzig. One P.St., Ph.D., was living in Heidelberg in the 1920s. Publications: Diss. Specimen der Nāyādhammakahā. 84 p. B. 1881. – Edited: Udānaṁ. 8+104 p. L. 1885 (repr. P.T.S. Text Ser. 142). – “Aus den Geschichten früherer Existenzen Buddhas”, Zeitsch.…
SCHÖHL, Hermann. Rufach, Oberelsass (now Rouffach, Haut-Rhin) 28.4.1882 — 19??. German Student of Indology. Son of the director of an agricultural school. After gymnasium in Colmar (Alsace) studied Germanistics at Freiburg i.B., Munich, Göttingen and Strassburg, where he started Sanskrit under E. Leumann. After graduating in 1905 worked as school-teacher…
STCHOUKINE, Ivan (Ivan Vasil’evič [Sergeevič?] Ščukin). 1886 — Beirut ?.10.1975. Russian Art Historian in France. Son of textile merchant and art collector Vasilij Ščukin (in one source Sergej, 1854–1936). After revolution settled in Paris, now studies under Pelliot, Foucher, et al. After doctorate in 1929 concentrated on Islamic art, visited…