GRAY, Albert. Kinnoull, Perth, Scotland 10.10.1850 — Chelsea, London 27.2.1928. Sir. British (Scottish) Lawyer interested in Sri Lanka and in Travel Literature. Son of George Gray (1798–1877), a lawyer and businessman, and Sophia Margaret Jameson. Member of Ceylon Civil Service in 1871-74. Resigned, back in the U.K. studied law and…
CHRISTOPHER, Willmott. 1??? — Multan, buried 9.10.1848. British Colonial Officer in India. Lieutenant of Indian Navy, in 1834-35 participated the British Admiralty Survey of the Maldives and with A. Young remained there, when the ship returned, and spent several weeks in Male. Beside other notes he collected the vocabulary which…
PYRARD DE LAVAL, François. Laval c. 1578 — Paris c. 1623. French Traveller in Maldives and India. Son of a trader. In May 1601 he sailed on Corbin one of the two ships equiped by the merchants of St.Malo, Laval and Vitré in order to compete with the Dutch E.I.C. in…
GEIGER, Wilhelm Ludwig. Nürnberg 21.7.1856 — Neubiberg near Munich 2.9. 1943. German Iranian Scholar and Indologist. Professor in Erlangen and Munich. Husband of —> Magdalene Geiger. Son of Johannes Leonhard Geiger (1820–1894), a Lutheran minister, and Emma Paur (1832–1918). Studied classical philology and Oriental languages at Berlin, Bonn and Erlangen…