CLARKE, Annie Barber (born Annie Leland Barber). Deerfield, MA 9.6.1861 —19.11.1956. U.S. Teacher and Suffragist, former Student of Indology. Daughter of Rev. Henry Hervey Barber (1835–1923, D.D.) and Elizabeth Pratt. Studied in 1883-86 at Harvard Annex for women (now Radcliffe College), learned Sanskrit under Lanman. A.M. 1891. For five years…
CLARKSON, William. Salisbury 1817 — 1897. Rev. British Missionary of London Missionary Society in Gujarat in 1839-48. Returned to England and became minister at Folkestone. Apparently there was another W. Clarkson, a missionary of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland, also in Gujarat, but in the second half of the 19th…
CHRISTOPHER, Willmott. 1??? — Multan, buried 9.10.1848. British Colonial Officer in India. Lieutenant of Indian Navy, in 1834-35 participated the British Admiralty Survey of the Maldives and with A. Young remained there, when the ship returned, and spent several weeks in Male. Beside other notes he collected the vocabulary which…
CHOUNAVEL, Constant. Socourt, Saint-Dié (Vosges) 9.4.1825 — Borella, Sri Lanka 23.8.1923. Father. O.M.I. French Catholic Missionary in Sri Lanka. Son of Joseph Chounavel and Christine Pierron. Studied theology at seminary of Saint-Dié and took the habit in 1849. Ordained priest in 1852 in Marseille and left for Ceylon. In 1852-83…
CHENOT, F. 1??? — 1???. Frenchman in India (?), according to Vinson interpreter in Bourbon (Réunion). There are several possibilities. Thus geneanet.org knows one Joseph Dominique Anicet Chenot (Pondichéry 17.4.1800 – 18??), son of François Chenot and Anne Affonço, married 1820 in Pondichéry Adelaide Thomase Laforgue, three daughters and one…
CHAPMAN, Francis Robert Henry. Sholapur, Maharashtra 22.10.1858 — Portugal 13.3.1942. British Colonial Officer in India. Son of Ingram Francis Chapman, an officer of E.I.C., and Louisa Aplin (d. 1869). Finally Major in Bombay Staff Corps. In retirement apparently lived in Camberley, Surrey. Married 1890 Margaret Hamilton Ritchie, children. Publications: English–Hindūstānī…
CHAPMAN, Charles. Bath wick, Somerset 23.11.1752 — 19.3.1809. British Civil Servant in India. Son of Charles Chapman (d. 1795), an officer of E.I.C.’s army. Educated at Hoxton Academy in London. From 1773 Writer of E.I.C. in Bombay, 1775 moved to Calcutta. Close to Hastings. In 1778-79 diplomatic mission to Cochin-China (Vietnam),…
CAUSSIN DE PERCEVAL, Armand-Pierre. Paris 11.1.1795 — Paris 15.1.1871. French Oriental (Arabic) Scholar. Son of Jean-Jacques-Antoine Caussin de Perceval (1759–1835, like his son Professor of Arabic at Collège de France) and Catherine Félicité Labroüe (1776–1802). From 1814 studied in Constantinople and travelled in the Near East. In 1833-71 Professor of Arabic at…
CARPENTER, James Nelson. Maffra, Victoria, Australia 1867 — Devon ?.3.1949. British Missionary in India. Son of James Henry Carpenter (1841–1918) and his wife Mary Ann. Born in Australia, but grew up in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire. M.A. Went to India in 1890. Worked for Church Missionary Society in Allahabad (in 1900 as…
CAPUS, Jean Guillaume. Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg 25.8.1857 — Boulogne-sur-Seine 27.4.1931. Luxembourgian Scientist (Botanist) and Explorer in France (naturalized 1882). Son of Andreas Capus (1829–1896) and Elisabeth Schneider. Studied in Musée d’Histoire naturelle, Paris, Dr.-ès-sciences 1879. Travelled as Bonvalot’s assistant in the Caucasus and Russian Central Asia (1882) and with painter Pépin in…