HEDBERG, Samuel Enoch (Enok). Bellö near Jönköping 19.9.1871 — Lund 17.4.1945 (1947?). Rev. Swedish Missionary in India. Son of Samuel Fredrik Olofsson and Anna Lena Olofsson. Went to India in 1905. Served Evangeliska Fosterlandsstiftelsen, then Alliansmissionen. After return in 1909 minister in Sweden. Dr.Phil. of an American university. Married 1905…
HARRIS, Henry. Mountrath, county Laois, Ireland 3.1.1758 — Madras 10.8.1822. British (Irish?) Physician in India. Son of John H. (1715–1776) and Sarah Deaves. M.D. Arrived in 1783 at Madras. Married 1786 in Madras Jane Charles, three sons and two daughters. His dictionary deals with the Dakhanī form of the language.…
GREEN, Arthur Octavius. 1847 — Camberley, Surrey 1924. British Engineer Officer. Served in India. In 1882 participated as engineer in military expedition to Egypt, in 1884 to Sudan. Finally a Colonel. Publications: A Practical Hindustani Grammar. 1-2. Oxford 1895. – Books on Arabic. Sources: Briefly in D. Schmidt-Brücken, S. Schuster…
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…
GOLDSACK, William. Glen Osmond, South Australia 29.11.1871 — 26.6.1957. Rev. Australian Baptist Missionary in India. Son of Mark Goldsack (1846–1914) and Mary Dalgleish Ferguson. Worked in eastern Bengal (now Bangladesh) from 1899, stationed at Pabna. In 1917-18 in Syria and Egypt, six months each, now learned Arabic. Retired in 1923 because…
FRANÇOIS-MARIE DE TOURS (Francesco Maria Da Tours, Franciscus Maria Turonensis). 16?? — Patna ?.5.1709. Father. French Capuchin Missionary in India and Tibet. Came from Tours and joined the order in Italy. Worked first as Capuchin Missionary in Diarbekir, Turkey, came to India in 1680. Worked in Pondicherry and Surat, in 1701 left…
GILBERTSON, George Waters. 6.3.1860 — 23.9.1941 (not 23.6.). British Colonial Officer in India. Apparently served in north-western border regions. Retired as Major and settled in Surrey. Married Ada Price, five children. Publications: Edited: The Assembly of Mirth. A Literal Translation into English of the Sabhá Bilása, one of the Degree of…
GAWROŃSKI, Andrzej. Geneva 20.6.1885 — Jósefów near Warsaw 11.1.1927. Polish Indologist. Professor in Lwów. Son of the historian Franciszek Rawita-G. (1845–1930) and —> Antonina Gawrońska, born in Switzerland during his parents’ exile. The family returned to (the then Russian) Poland in 1887. Educated in Warsaw and Lwów (now L’viv in…
GĄSIOR, Pawel. 19?? — 199?. Polish Indologist (Hindī). At Poznań University. Died young. Publications: ???. Sources: Briefly mentioned by Jankowski 2003.
FURRELL, James Wyburd. Grovesend, Kent 9.9.1836 — Steyning, Sussex 5.10.1905. British Civil Servant in India. Son of James Furrell (1810–1882) and Ann Wyburd. Studies at Cambridge (Emmanuel College). Served in North India. No further details about him are found (Google is just full of the Tagore book). Publications: The Tagore…