FADDEGON, Barend (Bernard). Amsterdam 9.7.1874 — Ede (Gelderland) 28.6.1955. Dutch Indologist. Professor in Amsterdam. Son of Barend Abraham F., a watchmaker, and Sophia Elisabeth Laugeman, grew up in Amsterdam. Studies of Dutch at Amsterdam (Uhlenbeck), then Indology at Leiden under Kern and Speyer. Ph.D. 1906 Leiden. From 1907 PD, 1908…
WOODTHORPE, Robert Gosset. Purfleet, Essex 22.9.1844 (or 26.5.) — 28.10.1920 (niceartgallery, others say 1898}. British Colonial Officer in India, Explorer and Amateur Artist. Major-General. In 1865 joined Royal Engineers, soon to India. In 1871-72 surveyed Lushai Hills, then Garo and Naga Hills. In 1885 led an expedition from Upper Assam…
WOODBURNE, Angus Stewart. London, Ontario 1.9.1881 — Madurai 13.2.1938. Rev. Canadian Missionary in India. Son of Thomas W. and Anne Elizabeth Cathro. Studies at McMaster in Toronto (B.A. 1906, M.A. 1910) and University of Chicago (B.D. 1917, Ph.D. 1918). Ordained Baptist minister in 1906. In 1906-14 missionary in India. In…
WOLLASTON, Arthur Naylor. Beulah Hill, Norwood, Surrey 14.10.1842 — Walmer, Kent 8.2.1922. Sir. British Oriental Scholar. Son of Henry Francis W. and Elizabeth Naylor. Educated at Stockwell Grammar School. In 1859 (when only 16) joined Political Department of India Office, worked under John Kaye, later moved to Revenue, Statistic and…
WIRZ, Paul. Moscow 29.5.1892 — Ulopu, Maprik, Papua New Guinea 30.1.1955. Swiss Ethnologist. Born of Swiss parents in Russia, son of Jakob Wirz (1856–1904), a businessman, and Louise Nidecker. School in Moscow and Zürich. Studied physics and chemistry at Technische Hochschule in Zürich, but soon turned to Ethnology. Ph.D. 1920.…
WILSER, Ludwig. Karlsruhe 5.10.1850 — Heidelberg 19.11.1923. German Physician and Racist Theoretician. Gymnasium in Karlsruhe, medical studies at Freiburg, Heidelberg and Leipzig. Dr.Med. Then practising physician in Karlsruhe until 1897, when he moved to Heidelberg and lived there as private scholar. He was interested in craniometry and had relations both…
WIDGERY, Alban Gregory. Bloxwich, Staffordshire 9.5.1887 — Winchester, Va. 22.3.1968. British Scholar of Religion in the U.S.A. Son of Rev. John Thomas Widgery and Ellen Thomas. Studies at Cambridge (St.Catharine’s College, B.A. 1908, M.A. 1912). From 1908-10 taught at Bristol University, 1910-12 further studies at Marburg, Jena and Sorbonne. Then…
WESTCOTT, George Herbert. Harrow on the Hill, Middlesex 18.4.1862 — Allahabad 16.1.1928. Rev. British Missionary in India. Son of Rev. Brooke Foss Westcott (1825–1901), then Bishop of Durham, and Sarah Whithard. Educated at Marlborough College, studies from 1882 at Peterhouse, Cambridge (B.A. 1885, M.A. 1899). Ordained 1886, after a brief…
WAUCHOPE, Robert Stuart (until 1920 R. S. Wahab). Bengal 20.3.1887 — 19??. British Colonial Officer in India. Son of a Colonel Robert Alexander Wahab of Indian army and Catherine Mary Ward. Joined army in 1906, 1910 appointed to Survey of India. After military duties in 1914-21 its Assistant Director of…
WARDEN, John. 1805? — after 1853. British Civil Servant in India. Worked as police in Bombay Presidency, later (1845) judge in Poona (Pune). Married 1831 in Bombay Harriet Lodwick (1812–1853), five children. Publications: “On the Customs of Gosawees or Gosaeens”, MJLS 14:1, 1847, 67-76 (Gosvāmi Śaiva sect). Sources: Stray notes in…