FORBES, Lestock Reid. Scotland 25.11.1835 — Brentford, Middlesex 5.12.1909. British (Scottish) Civil Servant in India. Son of John Alexander Sutherland Forbes (1797–1840) and Harriet Georgiana Prother. In 1871 he was Extra Assistant Commissioner in Palámau (Jharkand). In 1882-84 and 1887 District Magistrate in Rangamati (now in eastern Bangladesh). Married 1862…
FINEGAN, Jack. Des Moines, Iowa 11.7.1908 — Oakland, Calif. 15.7.2000. U.S. Archaeologist and Scholar of the Bible and Religion. Studied at Drake University (B.A. 1928, M.A. 1929, B.D. 1930) and Colgate Rochester Divinity School (B.D. 1931, M.Th. 1932). Professor at Iowa State University in Ames, then Professor of New Testament…
FERRARI, Alfonsa. Aquila 1.11.1918 — 1.1.1954. Italian Indologist. Professor in Rome. Grew up in Milano, studied in Rome, graduated in 1941 under Formichi and 1945 under Tucci (Indian religion and philosophy). From 1945 assistente straordinario di sanscrit. In 1946 and 1947-48 further studies of Buddhism, Tibetan and Sanskrit literature in…
FERRAR, Michael Lloyd. Coleraine, Londonderry 1839 — 1904. British (Irish) Civil Servant in India. Son of Michael Lloyd Ferrar (1799–1884), a cavalry officer of Indian army, and Mary Minchin (1806–1858). Joined I.C.S. 1861, arrived in India 1863, retired 1899 and returned to the U.K. In 1871 served in Seetapore, Audh.…
CHANTRAINE, Pierre Louis. Lille 15.9.1899 — Paris 30.6.1974. French Classical (Greek) Scholar and Linguist also interested in India. Professor in Paris. Son of a classical scholar. Educated in Cambrai, studies in Paris and Lille (Ernout, aggrégation 1922), in 1922–25 again in Paris (Meillet, also Vendryes, Bloch, P. Mazon). Ph.D. 1927.…
FEIST, Samuel Sigmund. Mainz 12.6.1865 — Copenhagen 23.3.1943. German IE Linguist and Pedagogue. Son of wine merchant David Feist and Juliana Marx. Studies at Strassburg (Strasbourg), Ph.D. 1888 (diss. on Gothic). Director of the Reichenheim Orphanage in Berlin, 1906-35, kept a military order. In 1939 emigrated as Jew to Denmark…
FALLON, Pierre. Namur 24.9.1912 — Calcutta 20.9.1985. S.J. Father. Belgian Jesuit Missionary in India. Indian citizen 1950. After school in Namur joined S.J. in 1930, studied Indology and theology at Louvain (lic.phil. & lic. theol.). Came to Calcutta in 1935. Professor of French Literature at Calcutta University for 25 years,…
FABRICIUS, Pierre (Peter F.). Berlin 23./30.4.1912 — 20.12.1988. French (of German origin) Indologist and South-East Asian Scholar. Son of a teacher of classical languages. Studies at Heidelberg (under Zimmer), then at Hamburg (Schubring), In 1933 emigrated to France because of Nazis. Now further studies under Lévi, Foucher, Renou, et al.,…
EWER, Walter. London 1784 — London or Middlesex 5.1.1863 (when 78). British Civil Servant in India. Son of the elder Walter Ewer (1747–1810), later Governor of British Bencoolen (Bengkulu) in Sumatra, and Elizabeth Atkins. In 1803 joined Bengal Civil Service. Served in Bengal, Amboina and Delhi, finally Judge of Upper…
ETHERINGTON, William Duke. Gosport, Hampshire 1838 — Torquay, Devonshire 5.6.1907. Rev. British Baptist Missionary in Benares, 1860-84. Possibly returned earlier as Alumni Cantabrigienses claims that he matriculated in 1877 and passed B.A. 1881 and M.A. 1884 (they confirm that he was Baptist missionary in India). Retired and worked as Baptist…