SKEMP, Frank Whittingham

SKEMP, Frank Whittingham. Eccles, Lancashire 13.12.1880 — 1971. British Civil Servant in India. Studies at Manchester (M.A. 1904) and in preparation for I.C.S. at Cambridge 1903-04. Served in the Punjab. Married Dorothy Frazer, children. Publications: Multani Stories. Collected and translated. 81 p. Lahore 1917. Sources: Manchester graduate register upto 1908 (www.ebooksread.com/authors-eng/university-of-manchester/the-victoria-university-of-manchester-register-of-graduates-up-to-july-1st-190-hci/page-34-the-victoria-university-of-manchester-register-of-graduates-up-to-july-1st-190-hci.shtml).

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SIEGERT, Hans

SIEGERT, Hans. Fürth 21.03.1911 — 10.01.1957. German Teacher and Linguist. Studied linguistics, classics, German and history at Munich (under  Wüst et al.). Lehrerprüfung 1938. Member of NSDAP, served in WW II (in 1942 in Wehrmacht). Worked as gymnasium teacher in Munich, in the 1950s in Ingolstadt. Publications: “Zur Geschichte der Begriffe ‘Arier’…

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SHUTTLEWORTH, Henry Lee

SHUTTLEWORTH, Henry Lee Hawden. Scorforth, Lancashire 14.5.1882 — New Delhi 28.2.1960. British Civil Servant in India. The only son of George Edward Sh., a physician, and Edith Mary Hadwen. Educated in Shrewsbury, from 1901 studies at Oxford (Pembroke College), then joined I.C.S. After further studies M.A. 1910 Cambridge, then went to India.…

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SHIRREFF, Alexander Grierson

SHIRREFF, Alexander Grierson. Weston-Super-Mare, Somerset 24.4.1883 — Walberswick, Suffolk 2.9.1962. British Civil Servant in India. Son of Francis Archibald Patullo Shirreff and Elizabeth Louisa Davidson. B.A. I.C.S. officer, in the 1930s Collector of Jaunpur. Married Dulcie Marion Baxter (1892–1973), children. Publications: With Pannā Lāl: The Dream Queen: a translation of the Svapnavasavadatta of…

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SHERLOCK, Woodford Wright

SHERLOCK, Woodford Wright. Blackrock, Cork 1836 — 14.3.1912. Born in Ireland. Apparently colonial officer in India. Lieutenant-Colonel. Son of Wright Sherlock and Celeste Mathieu. M.A. Lecturer (University Teacher) in Hindustani at London University College (1884) and at Cambridge (1883-1912). Married Jessie Strachan, three sons and one daughter. Publications: Nothing found.…

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SHARPE, Eric J.

SHARPE, Eric John. Lancaster 19.9.1933 — Sydney 19.10.2000. British Scholar of Comparative Religion in Australia. Born in a working class family in the middle of the great depression, but won a stipendium to Royal Lancaster Grammar School. In his teenshe  became close to Methodist church and began studies at Hartley…

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SEYMOUR, Lionel W.

SEYMOUR, Lionel William. Bombay 6.12.1855 — Surrey 15.4.1936. British Physician in India. Son of the elder L. W. Seymour, a colonial officer, and Catharine Burton. Worked in Bombay Civil Service, in 1905 returned to the U.K. Worked as physician. Married 1890 in Karachi Amy Elizabeth Clark, four sons. Publications: A Grammar of…

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SETON-KARR, Walter Scott

SETON-KARR, Walter Scott. 23.1.1822 — West Brompton, London 22.11.1910. British Civil Servant in India. Son of Andrew Seton-Karr (d. 1832), of Roxburghshire (Scotland) and formerly of I.C.S., and Alicia Anne Rawlinson. He was a godson of Walter Scott. Educated at Rugby. Served from 1848 in Bengal in judicial and political offices.…

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SELL, Edward

SELL, Edward. Wantage, Berkshire 24.1.1839 — Bangalore 15.2.1932. Rev. British Missionary in India. Son of William John Sell. Educated at Church Missionary College in Islington, London. Ordained deacon 1862, priest 1867. In 1865-81 Principal of Harris High School for Muslims in Madras, 1880-1905 Secretary of Church Missionary Society in Madras. B.D.…

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SEIDEL, August

SEIDEL, August. Helmstedt 29.9.1863 — 1916. German Linguist and Ethnologist. In 1889-1903 General Secretary of Deutsche Kolonialgesellschaft in Berlin. Publications: Theoretisch-praktische Grammatik der Hindustani-Grammatik, mit Übungsstücke in arabischer Schrift, und ein deutsch–hindustani Wörterbuch. 194 p. Die Kunst der Polyglottie. Vienna & Pest & Lp. 1893. – Praktisches Handbuch der arabischen Umgangssprache ägyptischen Dialekts.…

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