COLE, Robert Andrews. Madras 1835 — 1907. British Colonial Officer in India. Son of Major Robert Wynne Cole (1803–1867), an army doctor. Educated in Madras, learned Tamil and Kannaḍa. As a young Captain he served as Superintendent in Coorg in 1866-69 (with two intervals). Later Colonel in Madras Staff Corps.…
DEHON, Paul. Maurage, Hainaut 29.8.1856 — Rajhara, Daltonganj 27.6.1905. Father. S.J. Belgian Missionary in India. Joined Jesuits in 1876. Ordained priest 1882. To India in 1883, from 1889 worked in Kurukh (Oraon) mission. Publications: “Religion and Customs of the Uraons”, MASB 1:9, 1906, 121-181. Sources: P. Tete in La Civiltà…
BATSCH, Friedrich. Brandenburg 182? — 1907. Rev. German Lutheran Missionary in India. A Sorbian. Ordained 1844 in Berlin and left for India with three others. They intended to go to the Karens in Burma, but in Calcutta learned that American Baptists were already working there and turned to India. In…
WINFIELD, Walter Warren. 8.6.1889 — 6.4.1970. Rev. British Baptist Missionary in India. Son of Harry (1854–1915) Winfield and Clara Jane East (1852–1906). B.A., B.D. In 1917-27 worked in Udayagiri (Nellore dt., Andhra Pr.), 1927-29 in Banbury, then taught from 1930 at Serampore College. Married 1919 in Madras Lottie Lydia Johnson…
TUTTLE, Edwin Hotchkiss. New Haven, Conn. 23.9.1879 — Washington, DC 25.1.1939. U.S. Phonetician and Dravidian Scholar. Son of lawyer Lucius Bement Tuttle (1840–1929) and Emma Louise Hotchkiss. After Hillhouse High School studied at Yale College, graduated 1901. Further studies in Paris. Language teacher at Mackenzie School in Dobbs Ferry, New…
MACPHERSON, Samuel Charters (not Charles!). Aberdeen 7.1.1806 — Calcutta 15.4.1860. British (Scottish) Colonial Officer in India. Major (1854). Son of Hugh Macpherson (1767–1854), Professor of Greek at King’s College, Aberdeen, and Anna Maria Charters (1784–1807). Educated at home, then 1822-23 at College of Edinburgh, studied two years at Cambridge (Trinity College).…
HAHN, Karl Heinrich Philipp Ferdinand. Ketzin bei Berlin 25.2.1846 (1845?) — Himalaya 3.5.1910. Rev. German Missionary in India. Son of a shoemaker, learned cobbler’s work as a child, but also went to elementary school. When 14, he made an unsuccesful attempt to emigrate to America, but then became interested in…
GRIGNARD, André. 1865? — 1935?. Father. S.J. Belgian Missionary in India. From the late 19th century worked in Ranchi. The North Dravidian Oraon language is now better known as Kurukh. Publications: “The Oraons and Mundas: From the Time of Their Settlement in India. (An Essay of Constructive History)”, Anthropos 4, 1909,…
FRYE, John Percival. London 1807 — Berhampore, West Bengal 16.4.1856. British Colonial Officer in India. Served in Madras Infantry. Lieutenant 1839. From 1844 as Lieutenant Assistant to the Agent in Ganjam, from 1849 Assistant to the Agent, then in 1858 (?) as Lieutenant in charge of the Agency in the…
CAIN, John. 184? — 17.3.1917. Rev. British Missionary in India. Arrived in India in 1869, from 1874 in Dummagudem in Godavari dt. working there until his death. Married 1880 Sarah Davies (d. 1934 in Dummagudem), the first Australian missionary in India. He collected notes about Dravidian tribal languages and customs…