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 Holmes Cox (1841–1917), of Madras army, and Lucy Emma Halliday. Served in the Punjab (1917). Married 1900 Evelyn Florence Conran Smith (1875–1944), one son. Publications: Notes on Pushtu Grammar. 12+84+70 p. L.…
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 (1903–1979). Educated at Stanford (B.A. 1952 in classics, under H. Fraenkel) and, now studying IE and linguistics under Tedesco, Thieme et al., at Yale…
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 and maltster, d. 1842) and Marianne Byles. Educated in Ipswich, as a schoolboy of 15 already attracted to Sir William Jones’ Persian grammar and soon began translating…
COUVREUR, Walter. Antwerpen 25.7.1914 — Edegem, Prov. Antwerpen 17.9.1996. Belgian Linguist and Scholar of Tocharian. Son of Dr. Louis Lepold Fidèle Couvreur (1891–1960), a paediatrician, and Cornelia Biestraeten (1884–1947). After school in Antwerpen studies at Leuven (A. Carnoy), also under Sieg at Göttingen (now also Tocharian). Ph.D. Leuven 1936 in…
COUSINS, James Henry Sproull. Belfast 22.7.1873 — Madanapalle 20.2.1956. Irish author (poet and dramatist), critic and teacher. Born in a Methodist family of Huguenot origin, son of deep-sea mariner James Cousins and Susan Davey, educated in Belfast. Worked as an office boy and clerk, in 1897 moved to Dublin, where…
COUSENS, Henry. Paisley, Renfrewshire 13.9.1854 — Tunbridge Wells, Kent 5.11.1934. British (Scottish) Archaeologist in India. Son of Henry Cousens (1826–1914), a photozincographer, and Margaret Fitzmaurice (1822–1872). Civil engineer, soon to India. From 1881 Assistant of Cunningham in the A.S.I., from 1886 in charge of Western India (succeeding Burgess) and in…
COURTILLIER, Gaston. Buoy-Luxembourg (Aube) 20.4.1877 — ?.12.1933. French Indologist. From 1897 student of Lévi and Finot at É.P.H.É. In 1912 apparently teacher in Bastia, Corsica. In the early 1920s he was Professor at the lycée of Mulhouse, then at Lycée Fustel de Coulanges in Strasbourg and in 1924-34 also Chargé…
COURBIN, Henri. 1??? — ????. French Teacher interested in Sanskrit. In 1931 teacher in a secondary school (lycée de Lyon) in Paris. Both Edgerton (Language 8, 1932, 304) and Rylands (BSOS 6:4, 1932, 1029) found the grammar rather acceptable as elementary book, Turner (JRAS 1934, 143-145) is slightly more critical.…
COULSON, Michael. 1936 — 1975. British Indologist. Educated at St.Paul’s School in London, studies at Trinity College, Oxford (B.A.). D.Phil. 1966 Oxford. Then in 196?-72 Lecturer and Head of Sanskrit Department at University of Edinburgh. Paul Dundas (1952–2023) was his student. Publications: Diss. manuscript 1966, publ. as A critical edition…