TAYLOR, John William. London 12.4.1782 — at sea off Sangar Island at the mouth of the Hoogli 20.7.1824. British Colonial Officer in India. Lieutenant-Colonel. Son of James Owen Taylor and Christiana Dixon. As captain, in 1808-23 Professor of Hindustani at Fort William College. Married Emma Maud Mary Gould (1793–1844), children. Publications: Nothing…
TAYLOR, Joseph Irwin. Ireland 1765/66 — 1811. British Colonial Officer in India. Born in Ireland, in an originally English Unitarian family. Went to India in 1783, advanced to Major (or Colonel?). Served in Bengal. According to 1808 title the dictionary was “originally compiled for his own private use, by Capt. Joseph…
ST.QUENTIN, René de. 18?? — 19??. Frenchman, had spent 15 years in India (before 1889). His preface is signed in Le Petit-Quevilly in Normandy. Publications: Abrégé de Grammaire hindoustanie, essai d’étude phonétique de la langue hindoustânie: à l’aide de caractères romains, suivi d’un choix de phrases les plus usuelles et d’un…
STEWART, Charles. Lisburn, Antrim 1764 — Bath 19.4.1837. British Colonial Officer and Oriental Scholar in India. Son of Captain Poyntz Stewart, in 1781 joined E.I.C.’s army as cadet. Served in Upper India and Rohilkhand. From 1800-06 taught Persian at Fort William College. In 1805 the College sent him to Mysore…
STEPHEN, James Grant. Calcutta 28.7.1819 — Cheltenham, Gloucestershire 22.2.1897. British Colonial Officer. Major. Son of William George Stephen (1792–1823), captain of Bengal Engineers, and Esther Thomason. Served in Bengal Army, retired 1856. Now studies at Cambridge (B.A. 1861, M.A. 1864). From 1860 a few years (to 1863?) Lecturer in Hindustani…
STARKEY, Samuel Cross. London 3.3.1807 — Wrenbury Hall, Cheshire 28.3.1888. British Colonial Officer in India. Son of John Cross Starkey and Gracia Turnbull Penman. Captain, then Major. At his father’s death in 1855 inherited the property in Cheshire and returned to England, living the rest of his life at Wrenbury Hall. Married…
SMYTH, William Henry Carmichael. England 30.7.1780 — Alloway, Ayrshire 9.9.1861. British Colonial Officer in India. Son of James Carmichael Smyth, a Scottish physician. and his wife Mary, educated at Charterhouse School. In 1797 joined Bengal Artillery, after an expedition to South-East Asia served in Allahabad and Agra. In 1807 returned to…
SMITH, Robert Percy. 18?? — 1???. British Colonial Officer in India. Captain of Royal Artillery, signed his Preface in Bareilly (1890). There was an elder R.P.S., called “Bobus Smith” (1770–1845), the Judge Advocate General of Bengal and M.P., probably our man was named after him (but not his direct descendant). Publications: Urdu Grammar.…
SMITH, Lewis Ferdinand. 17?? — 18??. British Colonial Officer in India. Son of Major Lewis Lucius Smith (d. 1794) of Indian army. Major in Scindia’s service. Secretary to Sir Harford Jones, Ambassador to Persia. Married with Ann Mitchell Nicholls, father of General Lucius Horton Smith (1793–1858). Publications: “A Chronological table of the…
SMALL, George. 1??? — 1???. Rev. Baptist Missionary in India. M.A. Worked in Calcutta and Benares, retired for health reasons in the early 1860s (another source: 1852). Married 1852 Ann Chadwick (née Lovegrove). In the Preface to his Sanskrit Literature the author admits to have collected his material from Indological books.…