MATTHEWS, Gordon. Crosby near Liverpool 1886 (geneanet 27.10.1884) — Scotland 1947. Rev. British Missionary in South India. Son of John Matthews, a local G.P., the family came from North Wales. Studies at Merton College, Oxford. M.A. 1910, B.Litt., B.D. 1912 (Mansfield College), now left for India. Professor of English and…
MATERNOVÁ, Pavla (née Škampová). Prague 6.3.1858 — Prague 19.3.1923. Czech Author, Critic and Translator. Worked as teacher. Publications: Transl. in Czech: Bhagavadgita. 136 p. Klatovy 1920 (probably from English). – Much unrelated to India, translations from English, Russian and Polish. Sources: Long article in *Czech Wikipedia, with photo.
MARTINI, François. Can Tho, Vietnam, near Cambodian border 20.5.1895 — 18.6.1965. French Indologist and South-East Asian Scholar. Son of Corsican father and Cambodian mother. Studied law and philosophy, participated in the WW I (wounded) and after war studied languages in Paris, soon Sanskrit under S. Lévi. Diplom of Thai at…
MARTIN, W. B. 18?? — 1???. British Civil Servant in India. Deputy Collector and Magistrate, Madhipárah, Bhagalpur (1875), later of Begusarai (1892), in Bihar. Sometimes given three initials as J. W. B. Martin. Publications: “On the Archaeological Remains of Barantpur in Zila’ Bhágalpúr”, ProcASB 1872, 175-177. – Letter forwarding an Inscription found at Srinagar…
MARTIN, Claude. Lyon 5.1.1735 — Lucknow 13.9.1800. French Officer in India. Born in a modest middle class family, son of Fleury Martin (1708–1735), a casket maker, and Anne Vaginay (1702–1735). After school in Lyon apprenticed to a local silk weaver, but in 1751 he enlisted as a soldier in French…
MARSHALL, William Elliot. 1826? — Torquay, Devon 21.11.1888. British Colonial Officer and Anthropologist in India. Son of an officer, educated at Rugby. Lieutenant-Colonel of Bengal Staff Corps (1873). Retired as Major-General. Married 1861 Caroline Sylvia Hardy (1840–1926), one daughter, one son. During a furlough in Ootacamund he became interested in Todas…
MARSHALL, George Turnbull. Calcutta 13.12.1803 — at sea, St.Ives Bay, Cornwall 10.12.1854. British Colonial Officer in India. Son of William Hodney Marshall and Frances Turnbull. Arrived c. 1830. Major 1847, Lieutenant-Colonel 1852. In 1838-52 Secretary of the College of Fort William in Calcutta (the last holder of this office before the…
MARSDEN, Edmund. Bangalore 13.2.1848 — Hampstead, London 11.11.1932. British author of textbooks, some of which were also translated into Hindī, Tamil and other languages. Son of an elder S.M. and Mary Anne Hudlow (d. 1858 in Madras). In 1893 he belonged to Madras Department of Public Instruction (inspector of schools),…
MARKGRAF, Lothar August Walter (Samaṇero Dhammānusari). 1865 — Flanders fall 1915. Swiss Bauddha. In 1907 went to Burma. Ordained samaṇera 1908 in Rangoon by Nyāyatiloka, but returned after half a year to lay life and returned to Europe. From 1909 ran his own publishing house in Breslau, publishing Buddhist books by…
MANUEL, Thomas Philip. 1??? — 1???. A person who seems to defy all attempt of identification. The short preface to his 1860 book is signed at Hooghly College. One Th. Ph. Manuel, aged 31, died 23.12.1867. He is said to have been regular contributor to the Bengal Catholic Herald. Finally…