GRIEVE, Lucia Catherine Graeme. Dublin 1862 — Asbury Park, NJ 26.11.1946. Irish-born Scholar in the U.S.A. “Student, teacher, lecturer, farmer, poet and homemaker; born in Dublin, Ireland, in 1862, the daughter of the Rev. David Graeme Grieve and his spouse Martha Lucy (Kinkead) Grieve; was graduated from Wellesley College, 1883;…
GRIBBLE, James Dunning Baker. Newport, Devonshire 1841 — 1906. British Civil Servant in India. In Madras Civil Service in 1863-82. In 1875 he was Acting Sub-Collector in Cuddapah (Kadapa, Andhra Pradesh). Later on, served in Scottish police. Married Theodosia Ulrika Boguslawa Baierlein (1848–1919), daughter of a German missionary, six children.…
GRAHAM, John Anderson. De Beauvoir near London 8.9.1861 — Kalimpong 1942. Very Rev. British (Scottish) Missionary in Sikkim. Son of David Graham (from Dunbartonshire, d. 1867), a customs officer, and Bridget Nolan (from Ireland), a religious home. The family moved soon to Scotland. The loss of father forced him to…
GRAETER, Albert. Boston 26.9.1835 — Basel 1909. Rev. U.S. Missionary in India. Son of John Henry Francis Graeter (born in Württemberg) and Elizabeth Mason Goodwin. Went to India as a member of Basel Mission of Mangalore. In 1865-70 schoolteacher in Coorg. Retired, he worked 1870-1908 as teacher of English in…
GORER, Geoffrey Edgar Solomon. London 26.3.1905 — Sussex 24.5.1985. British Anthropologist, noted for his application of psychoanalytic techniques to anthropology. Born in a non-practising Jewish family, son of Edgar Ezekiel Gorer (1872–1915) and Rachel Cohen. Educated at Carterhouse. Studies at Cambridge, graduated 1927. Further studies at Sorbonne 1922-23 and Berlin…
GRAEFE, Julius Carl Walter. Leipzig-Lindenau 30.7.1900 — Bangalore 16.11.1955. German Lutheran Missionary in India. Son of a merchant, school and studies in Leipzig, then 1921-25 Missionsseminar and 1925-26 studies of Sanskrit and Comparative Religion at Leipzig. Ph.D. 1928, now also ordained priest and left to India. Learned Tamil in Kodaikanal. In…
GOUGH, Eleanor Kathleen. Hunsingore near Wetherby, Yorkshire 16.8.1925 — Vancouver 8.9.1990. British Anthropologist in the U.S.A. and Canada. Daughter of Albert Gough, a blacksmith. Educated in Knaresborough. From 1943 studies at Girton College, Cambridge. Ph.D. 1950. Taught at Brandeis University in 1961-63, University of Oregon 1963-67 and Simon Fraser University…
GORDON, Antoinette Koscherak. 24.3.1892 — 24.3.1975. U.S. Anthropologist, Specialist of Tibetan Religious Art. From 1936 worked in the Department of Anthropology of the American Museum of Natural History. Publications: The Iconography of Tibetan Lamaism. 32+129 p. N.Y. 1939, rev. ed. 31+131 p. ill. Rutland, Vermont & Tokyo 1959. – Tibetan…
GOLDSTREAM, William. 1841 — 1929?. British Colonial Officer in India. Son of John Goldstream and Margaret Dryburgh Menzies. Served in North India. Married 1866 Fanny Caroline Anson (1847–1918), six children. Publications: Edited: Records of the Intelligence Department of the North-West Provinces of India During the Mutiny of 1857. Edinburgh 1902. –…
GOLDSMID, Frederic John. Milano 19.5.1818 — Brook Green, Hammersmith (London) 12.1.1908. Sir. British Colonial Officer in India. Major-General. Son of Lionel Prager Goldsmid (1797–1866), an officer, and Eliza Frances Campbell. Educated in Paris, at King’s College School and King’s College in London, entered Madras army in 1839. Military service in China…