BROWN, John Coggin. West Auckland, co. Durham ?.10.1884 — 23.6.1962. British Geologist in India and Burma. Son of George Richard Brown and Eliza Bedlington Coggin. Educated at King James I School and Armstrong College of the University of Durham. Graduated 1904 in geology and chemistry. M.Sc. 1911 Durham. In 1905…
BROOKS, Sarah Wells. 18?? — 19??. U.S.Early Female Student. Studied from 1892 at Harvard Annex for women (soon Radcliffe College). Learned Sanskrit under Lanman and assisted H. C. Warren, but mainly concentrated on zoology and landscaping. Later on, she lived many years in her own farm in Concord, MA, but…
BRICE, Nathaniel. Plymtree, Devon 13.11.1814 — Dinapore, Bihar 2.7.1869. British Baptist Missionary in India. The Preface of the book is signed in Dinapore (now Danapur in Bihar), where the birth of a daughter is mentioned in 1843. The Baptist missionary J. G. Gregson married 1861 the eldest daughter of Nath. Brice…
CONOLLY, Edward Barry. London? 1808 — Kohat, Afghanistan ?.10.1840. British Colonial Officer in India. Son of Valentine Conolly (1763–1809), formerly surgeon in India, and Matilda Dunkin (1781–1819). From 1824 served in Bengal Cavalry. Lieutenant, then Captain. Died (shot) when in command of the escort of British envoy in Kabul. His elder…
COLLET, Charles. 18?? — 1???. British Civil Servant in India. In Madras C.S. Sub-Collector in Malabar (1855), when his superior, H. V. Conolly, was murdered, and reported the events. Moved later to Madras and wrote the Reader there. In 1866 Ch. Collet of Madras C.S. was nominated a High Court…
COLE, Frederick Thomas. 18?? — 19??. Rev. British Missionary in India. First in Agra, from 1873 in Santal Mission of Church Missionary Society in Taljhari, Rajmahal, until at least 1880. In 1891 in England, apparently living in 1900. Married. Publications: “Santâli Folklore”, IA 4, 1875, 10-12, 257-259; “Santali Riddles”, IA 4,…
COHN-WIENER, Ernst (until 1907 Ernst Cohn). Tilsit, East Prussia (now Sovetsk in Russia) 25.12.1882 — New York 13.4.1941. German Historian of Asian Art. Son of Alfred Cohn and Helene Wiener. Matriculated 1902 from Bromberg (Bydgoszcz in Poland), then studies of art history at Berlin and Heidelberg, where Ph.D. 1907. From 1908…
COCKBURN, John. 1852 — Dehra Dun 14.10.1902. British Civil Servant in India, interested in Prehistory. In 1879 characterized as “late Curator of the Allahábád Museum, Officiating Assistant Osteologist, Indian Museum, Calcutta.” Worked in Indian Museum in 1879-83, from 1884 Assistant Sub-Deputy Opium Agent in Opium Department. Publications: “Notes on Stone…
CLINT, Leonidas J. St.Anns Soho, Middlesex 1812 — Dewsbury, Yorkshire 21.7.1897. Rev. British Teacher in India. Graduated M.A. from Trinity College, Cambridge. Principal of La Martinière College in Lucknow c. 1845-54, then of Krishnanagar College in Bengal. Returned to England in 1857 he was ordained deacon 1859 and priest 1861.…
CLEMENTS, Ernest S. Camberwell, Surrey 1873 — 19??. Sir. British Civil Servant and Musicologist in India. From 1891 studies at Oxford (Christ Church), soon joined I.C.S. District Judge in Satara (1910), then in Dharwar (1918). Still active in London in 1937. As an early Western student of Indian music his…