BURROWS, Lionel Burton

BURROWS, Lionel Burton. Deposit, N.Y. 12.3.1883 — Kingsbridge area, Devon 13.10.1970. British (or U.S. in British Service?) Civil Servant in India. Son of Charles Benjamin Burrows (1857–1902), a publisher, and Lily Amelia Craymer. Educated at St.Paul’s School in Darjeeling and at Elphinstone College in Bombay. In 1907 joined the Bengal…

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BURRITT, Elihu

BURRITT, Elihu. New Britain, Conn. 8.12.1810 — ibid. 6.3.1879. “The Learned Blacksmith”. U.S. Literate interested in Sanskrit. Son of an eccentric shoemaker-farmer. He was trained as smith in his home district and worked 1828-37 as a smith in Worcester, Mass. Began privately to study languages already as an apprentice. In…

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BURNOUF, Jean-Louis

BURNOUF, Jean-Louis. Urville near Valognes (Manche) 14.9.1775 — Paris 8.5.1844. French Classical Scholar interested in Sanskrit. Professor in Paris. Father of —> Eugène Burnouf (1801–1852). One of the 8 children of a poor weaver, lost early his father. In 1793 matriculated from the collège of Harcourt, without means had to…

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BURNOUF, Émile-Louis

BURNOUF, Émile-Louis. Valognes (Manche) 25/26.8.1821 — Paris 1.7. or 15/16.1.1907. French Indologist and Classical scholar. Son of bailiff Charles Burnouf (1787–1859) and Aimée Felicity Lévêque, cousin of —> Eugène Burnouf (1801–1852). After Lycée Saint-Louis  studied from 1841 at École normale supérieure, then sent to École d’Athènes. Ph.D. 1850. From 1854…

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BURNEY, Henry

BURNEY, Henry. 27.2.1792 — at sea 4.3.1845. British Colonial Officer (Captain, 1834 Lieutenant-Colonel) and Diplomat in South-East Asia (Burma). Son of Richard Thomas Burney (1768–1808) and his wife Jane, father was the headmaster of Orphan School at Kidderpore near Calcutta. Joined Indian army in 1807. Attached to the 20th Marine…

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BURNES, James

BURNES, James. Montrose, Angus 12.2.1801 — London 19.9.1862. British (Scottish) Physician in India. Son of James BSon of James Burnes (1760–1852, provost and a cousin of the poet Robert Burns) and Elizabeth Glegg, brother of —> Alexander Burnes (1805–1841). Educated at Montrose Academy, Edinburgh University and in London hospitals (M.D.),…

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BURNES, Alexander

BURNES, Alexander. Montrose, Angus 16.5.1805 — Kabul 2.11.1841. Sir. British (Scottish) Colonial Officer (Lieutenant-Colonel) and Traveller in India, Afghanistan and Central Asia. Son of James Burnes (1760–1852, provost and a cousin of the poet Robert Burns) and Elizabeth Glegg, brother of —> James Burnes (1801–1862). After attending the famous college…

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BURNELL, Arthur C.

BURNELL, Arthur Coke. St.Briavels, Gloucestershire 11.7.1840 — West Stratton, Hampshire 12. or 16.10.1882. British Civil Servant and Indologist in India. Son of Arthur Burnell, of E.I.C.’s marine service, and Mary Agnes Coke. Educated at Bedford School, studies at King’s College in London (met Fausbøll there who aroused his interest in…

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BURN, Richard

BURN, Richard. L West Derby, Liverpool 1.2.1871 — Oxford 26.7.1947 (when 76). British Civil Servant in India, Historian of Islamic and Colonial India, Numismatist. Son of Richard Burn (1835–1896) and Harriet Tinsley. School in Liverpool, studies at Oxford (Christ Church). In 1891 joined the I.C.S., served in U.P. In 1900…

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BURLINGAME, Eugene Watson

BURLINGAME, Eugene Watson. Albany, N.Y. 5.8.1876 — Albany 3.8.1932. U.S. Indologist (Pāli Scholar). Son of Eugene Burlingame (1847–1898) and Emma Patten Watson (1850–1936). Educated at Yale (B.A. 1898) and University of Penn­sylvania (M.A. 1902, Ph.D. 1910). Then studies of Sanskrit at Harvard 1909-10 (under Lanman) and at Johns Hopkins 1914-16 (Bloomfield).…

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