MAKOWIECKA, Jadwiga Ineza (née Paszkowicz). near Radom 10.12.1886 — London 21.9.1988, when 102. Polish Teacher and Translator. Daughter of Adam Paskowicz. Married 1914 Stanisław Makowieckij (b. 1891), two children. Publications: Transl. Oredzia krola Asioki. Warsaw 1964 (Aśokan edicts); translations from Sanskrit. – Also translated R. Tagore into Polish. Sources: *J. Ostyk-Narbutt, long account in…
MACKENZIE, David Neil. London 8.4.1926 — Bangor, Wales 13.10.2001. British Iranian Scholar in Germany. Professor in Göttingen. Son of David MacKenzie, educated in Slough, Windsor and Cambridge. In the WW II his mother and sister went to Canada, but he remained with his father. From November 1943 to December 1947 voluntary…
MACDONALD, David (Dorje). Darjeeling 1870/73? — Darjeeling 6.7.1962. British Trade Agent in Tibet. Son of a Scottish father, a planter, and Sikkimese (Lepcha) mother. The father left when he was six and he was educated by his mother as a Buddhist, but later took Christianity. Worked in Bengal vaccination service.…
MCCALL, Anthony Gilchrist. Conisbrough, Yorkshire 7.1.1895 — Poole, Dorset 8.5.1978. British (Scottish) Civil Servant in India. Son of Anthony McCall and Mary Greer Gilchrist, educated at Cheltenham College. In 1914-21 served in Royal Artillery. Major. In 1921 joined I.C.S. In 1927-30 in Manipur, 1931-43 Superintendent of Lushai Hills district. Then…
LYTTELTON-ANNESLEY, Arthur (until 1844 A. McLeod). Dublin 2.9.1837 — 16.2.1926. Sir. British Colonial Officer in India. Lieutenant-General. Born in Ireland of English parents, Arthur Lyttelton McLeod (1802–1882, from 1844 Annesley) and Mary Bradley. Educated at Harrow. Joined army in 1854 and participated in Crimean War. In 1866-77 and 1878-88 served in…
LUNIN, Boris Vladimirovič. Geneva 18.7.1906 — Tashkent 18.10.2001. Russian Historian of Central Asia. Son of a lawyer, graduated in 1922 (?) from Arheologičeskij Institut in Rostov-na-Donu. War service 1941-45. Kand. ist. nauk 1956, Dr. ist. nauk 1967, Professor 1970. In 1925-41 “sotrudnik Donskogo obščestva arheologii, istorii, Sev.-Kavkazskogo kraevogo obščestva arheologii…
LUARD, Charles Eckford. Farnham, Surrey 11.11.1869 (or 11.10.) — Oxford 17.5.1927. British Colonial Officer in India. Lieutenant-Colonel. Son of Colonel Charles Henry Luard (1837–1905) and Amelia Juliana Martin. Educated in Marlborough, studies at Oxford (Christchurch), M.A. Cadet 1891, in 1892-98 served in Indian army, then in Indian Political Service until 1925.…
LOW, Charles Rathbone. Dublin 30.10.1837 — Kensington, London 1918. British Naval Officer. Son of Major John Handcock Low (1805–1849) of Bengal Army and Sophie Hamilton, lost early his parents. Born in Ireland he was just a few months old when parents went to India and he thus grew up there…
LOUNSBERY, Grace Constant. New York 29.1.1876 — France 24.9.1964. U.S. Author, Playwright and Bauddha in France. Daughter of James L. (d. 1897) (?) and Grace Constant. Graduated from Bryn Mawr College, in 1904 already in Paris. A theosophist, the founder (1929) and President of Amis du Bouddhisme. Unmarried. Publications: La Méditation…
LORENZ, Francisco Valdomiro (born František Vladimir Lorenc). Zbyslavice, Moravia 24.12.1872 — Dom Feliciano near Porto Alegre 24.5.1957. Brazilian (born Czech) Philosopher, Polyglot and Esperantist. He took early Esperanto, but as Austro-Hungarian state imagined it to be connected with socialism, he had to emigrate in 1891. Lived first in Rio de Janeiro, then…