CUENDET, Georges. Geneva 5.9.1897 — 1980. Swiss Linguist interested in Sanskrit. Educated at Collège de Genève, studies at universities of Geneva (Bally), Basel, and Paris (Meillet at É.P.H.É., also É.L.O.V.). Dr. ès lettres 1924 Geneva. In the 1930s teacher of Latin and Greek at Collège de Nyon and in 1938-63…
CROSBY, Josiah. Falmouth, Cornwall ?.5.1880 — 4.12.1958. Sir. British Diplomat interested in South-East Asian History. Son of Captain J. P. Crosby and his wife Christina, educated in Newcastle. Studies at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge (B.A. 1902, M.A. 1928). Came to Thailand as young cadet in 1904, spent many years…
CROOKE, William. Macroom, co. Cork 6.8.1848 — Cheltenham, Gloucestershire 25.10.1923. British (Irish) Civil Servant and Anthropologist in India. Eldest son of Warren Crooke (1814–1896), M.D., of an originally English family long resident in Ireland, and Elizabeth Pyne Lindsey. Educated at the grammar school in Tipperary, studied at Trinity College in…
CRAVEN, Roy Curtis, Jr. Cherokee Bluffs, Alabama 29.7.1924 — 30.5.1996. U.S. Art Historian, also painter, sculpturer and photographer. Son of R. C. Craven, Sr. (1891–1968) and Edna Pearl Morris. Associate Professor of Art at the University of Florida in Gainesville, from 1964 acting director of the new University of Florida…
COX, Edmund Charles. Exeter, Devon 27.2.1856 — Chiswick, London 11.3.1935. Sir, 15th Baronet. British Police Officer in India. Son of Rev. —> George William Cox (1827–1902), the 14th Baronet and a historian, and Emily Maria Stirling. “Educated at Marlborough and Trinity College, Cambridge. Appointed Assistant Inspector-General of Police in Bombay,…
COX, Arthur Ditmas. 21.3.1870 — Bournemouth (?) 3.5.1939. British Colonial Officer in India. Lieutenant-Colonel. Son of Henry William Cox, of Madras army, and Lucy Emma Halliday. Served in the Punjab (1917). Married with Evelyn (1875–1944), one son. Publications: Notes on Pushtu Grammar. 12+84+70 p. L. 1911. Sources: Not in Br.…
COWGILL, Warren Crawford. Crangeville, Idaho 19.12.1929 — New Haven 20.6.1985. U.S. IE Linguist. Professor at Yale. Son of George Dewey Cowgill (1898–1975) and Ruby Eugenia Smith. Educated at Stanford (B.A. 1952 in classics, under H. Fraenkel) and, now studying IE and linguistics under Tedesco, Thieme et al., at Yale (M.A.…
COWELL, Edward Byles. Ipswich 23.1.1826 — Cambridge 9.2.1903. British Indologist. Professor in Cambridge. In 1856-64 in India. Son of Charles Cowell (a merchant, d. 1842) and Marianne Byles. Educated in Ipswich, as a schoolboy already attracted to Sir William Jones’ Persian grammar. After the school he followed his late father…
COUVREUR, Walter. Antwerpen 25.7.1914 — Edegem, Prov. Antwerpen 17.9.1996. Belgian Linguist and Scholar of Tocharian. After school in Antwerpen studies at Leuven, also under Sieg at Göttingen. Ph.D. Leuven 1936 in Oriental languages and 1938 in Classics. In 1938-44 researcher of Nationaal Fonds van Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek in Brussels. From 1945…
COUSINS, James Henry Sproull. Belfast 22.7.1873 — Madanapalle 20.2.1956. Irish author (poet and dramatist), critic and teacher. Born in a family of Huguenot origin, son of merchant James Cousins and Susan Davey. Worked as a clerk, in 1897 moved to Dublin, where he befriended with Joyce, Russell and Yeats, living…