PARDO DE TAVERA Y GORRICHO, Trinidad Hermengildo José Maria Juan Francisco. Manila 13.4.1857 — Manila 26.3.1925. Spanish-Philippinese Physician, Antiquarian and Linguist. Son of Felix Pardo de Tavera (d. 1864), a Spanish lawyer and high official, and Juliana Gorricho Santos, of a wealthy Philippinese Spanish family. Grew up in Intramuros, Manila. Studies at Colegio de…
PALMER, Edward Henry. Cambridge 7.8.1840 — Sinai Peninsula 11.8.1882. British Oriental Scholar and Asian traveller. Son of William Henry Palmer, a private schoolmaster, and his wife Mary, lost early his father and soon also his mother, grew up with an aunt. After school in Cambridge he was sent to London…
OUVRY, Henry Aimé. 10.3.1813 — 12.2.1899. British Colonial Officer in India. Of a Huguenot family, son of Peter Aimé Ouvry (d. 1830) and Sarah Amelia Delamain. Served in India. Major of 9th Light Dragoons, from 1858 Colonel (still 1868). Member or R.A.S. Married 1854 Mathilda Hannah Delamain (1835–1897), one daughter.…
OUCHTERLONY, John. Walworth, Surrey 15.1.1813 — Ootacamund 29.4.1863. British Colonial Officer in India. Lieutenant-Colonel. Son of William Ouchterlony (1766–1829), an assurance official, and Harriet Lee. Served in Madras Engineers, in 1841-43 in Hong Kong. Married 1844 Alice Trevor Puchterbury (ancestry) or Turton (Wikitree, with years 1826–1915), four daughters. Died of…
OSBORNE, Łucja (Lucia, Ludka, née Lipszyc). 15.2.1904 — Landon 2.12.1987. Polish Disciple of Ramana Maharshi. Born in a large orthodox Jewish family (the most of them died in camps during WW II). She met Arthur Osborne (1906–1970) in Warsaw, where he was teaching English. They were married in 1934 and 1936…
O’SHAUGHNESSY, William Brooke (born William Sands, 1825 W. Sands O’Sh., 1827 W, Brooke O’Sh.). Limerick, Ireland 1.11.1809 — Southsea, Hampshire 10.1.1889. Sir. British (Irish) Physician in India. Son of merchant Daniel Sands (Catholic) and Sarah Boswell (Protestant). Studies briefly at Trinity College, Dublin, then at Edinburgh, Med.Dr. 1829. Moved to London…
ONORATO DA UDINE (Franciscus Honoratus ad Utino, lay Giangiacomo). Tomba near Udine 7.11.1757 — Rome 8.12.1836. Italian Capuchin Missionary in India. Went to India in 1792, worked many years in Pondicherry, Surat, Madras and Masulipatan. Very little is known of his life (except some contradicting mentions, claiming he worked in Tibet, Madagascar, or…
OEHLER, Gustav Friedrich. Ebingen, Württemberg 10.6.1812 — Tübingen 19.2.1872. German Lutheran Conservative Theologian and Oriental Scholar. Son of a modest teacher, Georg Friedrich Oehler, and Johanna Gastpar (d. c. 1821). Educated in Ebingen and in the seminary of Blaubeuren, from 1829-33 studied theology and Oriental languages at Tübingen, learned Sanskrit from…
O’CONNOR, William Frederick Travers. Longford, Ireland 30.7.1870 — Chelsea, London 14.12.1943. Sir. British (Irish) Officer and Diplomat in British Service in India. Son of land agent Matthew Richard Weld O’Connor (1828?–1902) and Harriet Georgina O’Reilly. Educated 1884-87 at Charterhouse School in Surrey. After Royal Military Academy joined Royal Artillery in 1890.…
O’BRIEN, Edward. Ireland 26.7.1840 — Tasmania, Australia 28.11.1893 (when 53). British Civil Servant in India. Son of Henry O’Brien and Henrietta Godley. Deputy Commissioner of Kangra. Married Mary Oclanis Lamb (1848–1939), six children (—> A. J. O’Brien, 1870–1930). He assisted his colleagues in similar works, but his own writings were only…